Relativizing (or, to use IT-speak, virtualizing) the class histogram
reporting mechanism to a per-generation report might provide useful
profiling/debugging information for some kinds of customers/users.
Comments
SUGGESTED FIX
Here's a preliminary webrev (sans the changes for 6797870):-
http://analemma.sfbay.sun.com/net/spot/workspaces/ysr/genhisto/webrev
This will of course change some as soon as the changes iof 6797870 are
imported, at which time an updated webrev will be posted.
02-03-2009
EVALUATION
Will, like 6797870, need CCC approval before it becomes officially
supported. Will also need to be reviewed by the serviceability and
tools groups.