Thanks. Meanwhile I've patched the two offending parts of the database library 
to work round the problem. Although our benchmarks run quite nicely on 7u12 and 
8 (give or take a couple of slowdowns) full applications really aren't 
performing well right now.

Startup time on 7u12 has increased by somewhere between 50 and 70%, which seems 
to be due to the new LambdaForm infrastructure being slower on 
initialisation/initial calls. That isn't great but is something I think we can 
live with and will probably push us to look at ways of improving overall 
startup time.

The large number of LamdbaForms created means permgen usage has increased 
substantially – it was over 300MB by the time the applications has started.

Compilation never really settles down during use of the app. I'll look into 
this (I don't think it ever really settled down on 7u9 either but performance 
was considerably better).

I'm going to try running everything with PrintCompilation and LogCompilation to 
try and work out why compilation isn't settling down and narrow the problem 
down.

From: John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com<mailto:john.r.r...@oracle.com>>
Reply-To: Da Vinci Machine Project 
<mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net<mailto:mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net>>
Date: Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:42
To: Da Vinci Machine Project 
<mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net<mailto:mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net>>
Subject: Re: Java 7 update 12 issue with MethodHandles.catchException.

On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:

That helps.  I can't recall code that has a "8 argument limitation" and does 
something else with 9+.  Maybe John has an idea.

The bug is probably in GuardWithCatch.invoke_V, in this file:
  
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/tip/src/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandleImpl.java

I'll look into it.

— John
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