Pruning Dead Exception Handlers

Posted on March 25, 2024

In JDK 22 we resolved a performance issue that had been plaguing the FFM API for a while. The effect of this optimization is more broadly applicable to Java code using try-with-resources, or just any untaken catch block...

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