[GROOVY-11159] ClassNode: separate type definition information

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved

Language

groovy

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eric Milles
• Created: 17/Aug/23 20:35
• Updated: 15/Jan/24 02:11

Description

ClassNode is used to represent type definitions as well as type references. There are a lot of data members that apply only to type definitions. However, every reference pays the cost. ClassNode could have a single reference to another class (essentially a struct) that holds all the definition information. With this, type references would only have one reference (initialized to null) instead of all those fields.

Fields:

• modifiers
• syntheticPublic
• superClass
• interfaces
• mixins
• objectInitializers
• constructors
• methods
• methodsList
• fields
• fieldIndex
• properties
• module
• compileUnit
• staticClass
• scriptBody
• script
• innerClasses
• lazyInitDone?
• lazyInitLock?
• clazz
• enclosingMethod
• recordComponents
• transformInstances?
• permittedSubclasses

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-4156 [greclipse] Can we make ClassNode a less leaky abstraction?
• relates to: GROOVY-11205 Groovy 3.0.13 to Groovy 4.0.13, I encountered a "Java heap space" error during the compilation process