>From this webrev
>http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nloodin/exception-tracing/webrev.01/ you are
>counting the number of throwables constructed. You might want to change the
>name to reflect that. I don't think anyone would want to write a spec for how
>many throwables are thrown given that a throwable can be wrapped, suppressed,
>rethrown, etc. Jason
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:10:02 +0100
> From: nils.loo...@oracle.com
> To: core-libs-...@openjdk.java.net; serviceability-dev@openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Fwd: RFR: 8007806: Need a Throwables performance counter
>
> Does anyone have anything strongly against this? This is a small change
> just to add a performance counter, the code to increment it and read it
> will live in other parts of the code and be a part of a larger separate
> commit.
>
> Alan Bateman gave the response that the name was inappropriate, but I
> don't really have a better alternative, but neither do I have strong
> opinions, so feedback would be appreciated!
>
> How about
> "sun.throwables.thrownThrowables" ?
>
> Regards,
> Nils Loodin
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RFR: 8007806: Need a Throwables performance counter
> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:10:02 +0100
> From: Nils Loodin <nils.loo...@oracle.com>
> To: core-libs-...@openjdk.java.net, serviceability_dev_ww_grp
> <serviceability_dev_ww_...@oracle.com>
>
> It would be interesting to know the number of thrown throwables in the
> JVM, to be able to do some high level application diagnostics /
> statistics. A good way to put this number would be a performance
> counter, since it is accessible both from Java and from the VM.
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8007806
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nloodin/8007806/webrev.00/
>
> Regards,
> Nils Loodin
>
>