Summary: cache more reflective data and lookup results.
Reviewed-by: alanb, plevart, psandoz, dl
Contributed-by: NDoug Lea &lt;dl@cs.oswego.edu&gt;, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou

Reviewed-by: dholmes, chegar, forax, darcy, mduigou

Reviewed-by: lancea, chegar, psandoz

Summary: Performance improvements for double/float -> String and decimal/hex String -> double/float conversions.
Reviewed-by: martin, iris
Contributed-by: NSergey Kuksenko &lt;sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com&gt;, Brian Burkhalter &lt;brian.burkhalter@oracle.com&gt;, Dmitry Nadezhin &lt;dmitry.nadezhin@oracle.com&gt;, Olivier Lagneau <olivier.lagneau@oracle.com>

Summary: setProtectionDomain0 and JVM_SetProtectionDomain are unused since at least 1.5.  This is the JDK side of a changeset to remove it.
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb
Contributed-by: NOtavio Goncalves <otariojava@java.net>

Reviewed-by: martin, psandoz, alanb
Contributed-by: henry.jen@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mchung, jbachorik

Summary: Catch OutOfMemoryError in reference handler thread if caused by allocation of an InterruptedException
Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb

Reviewed-by: abuckley, jfranck

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, mduigou

Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou, dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, lancea

Summary: cache a copy of the char[] to use with toString() and clear it when ever the sb content is modified
Reviewed-by: alanb, plevart, mduigou, forax

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Changes to support invocation of lambda methods compiled either as static interface methods and or private instance methods.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: mduigou, mchung

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: abuckley, darcy

Reviewed-by: martin, alanb, chegar, plevart

Reviewed-by: martin, alanb, ulfzibis, mduigou
Contributed-by: NStuart Marks &lt;stuart.marks@oracle.com&gt;, Henry Jen <henry.jen@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: mchung

Reviewed-by: mduigou, alanb, chegar, darcy
Contributed-by: NPaul Sandoz &lt;paul.sandoz@oracle.com&gt;, Brian Goetz &lt;brian.goetz@oracle.com&gt;, Doug Lea <dl@cs.oswego.edu>

Reviewed-by: alanb, jrose, jdn

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, twisti

8011805: Update sun.tools.java class file reading/writing support to include the new constant pool entries
Reviewed-by: mduigou, alanb

8008941: isSynthetic() returns false for lambda instances
Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: smarks

6992705: Include modifiers in Class.toGenericString()
Summary: Class.toGenericString and supporting changes; additional reviews by Peter Levart
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Append 4 chars instead of the string "null"
Reviewed-by: mduigou, forax, jgish

Reviewed-by: mduigou

7172553: A utility class that forms the basis of a String.join() operation
Summary: Integrate StringJoiner changes from lambda
Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou

Summary: Correct some errors in the javadoc comments for parameter reflection.
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Summary: Fix and optimize codePointAt, codePointBefore and similar methods
Reviewed-by: sherman, okutsu, ulfzibis, kizune

Reviewed-by: acorn, dlsmith

Reviewed-by: dlong, alanb, mduigou
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com, bob.vandette@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mchung, iris