A brand new, fast classfile parser.

Try it: ./tools/dump-class ./build/quick/classes

The output is intended to be easy to filter on the command line.
This is a starting point for lots of interesting bytecode analysis
for which we have waited too long.

Example.  All generic signatures we produce.

  // almost 20K classfiles
  % find build/quick/classes -name '*.class' |wc -l
      18519

  // fully parsed in 6 seconds
  tools/dump-class build/quick/classes |grep "^  signature" | wc -l
      50802

  real	0m6.230s

It's designed to be easy to make faster if you don't care about
particular classfile bits; you can override those methods to jump
forward in the input stream rather than building a structure.
For just a little sampling, here are our most frequently
repeated name/signature combinations.

194   signature               <init>  ()V   // this one is weird, wonder why there's a generic signature
115   signature    $div$colon$bslash  <A1:Ljava/lang/Object;>(TA1;Lscala/Function2<TA1;TA1;TA1;>;)TA1;
105   signature          applyOrElse  <A1:Ljava/lang/Object;B1:Ljava/lang/Object;>(TA1;Lscala/Function1<TA1;TB1;>;)TB1;
103   signature                 view  ()Ljava/lang/Object;
101   signature                toSet  <B:Ljava/lang/Object;>()Lscala/collection/immutable/Set<TB;>;

And the top five name/descriptor combinations.

11170   descriptor           <clinit>  ()V
10155   descriptor   serialVersionUID  J
7130   descriptor              apply  (Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
3028   descriptor              apply  ()Ljava/lang/Object;
2426   descriptor             <init>  ()V

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/dump-class b/tools/dump-class
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+
+classpath=$($(dirname $BASH_SOURCE)/quickcp)
+
+java -cp "$classpath" scala.tools.nsc.MainGenericRunner -usejavacp scala.tools.cmd.program.DumpClass "$@"
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