javac takes too long time to resolve interface dependency

FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.8.0_102"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed mode)

FULL OS VERSION :
Darwin JasonMBP2014.local 16.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.0.0: Mon Aug 29 17:56:20 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3789.1.32~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The Scala programming language is in the process of migrating to Java 8. As part of this, we have started to use default methods in interfaces in our standard library.

We have noticed a regression in the startup time of applications. Steps to reproduce are below.

I profiled this and noticed the most of the time is spent in HierarchyVisitor<FindMethodsByErasedSig>.

Inspection of this code suggest to me that it does not guard against redundant work when there are multiple paths to a particular super interface through the super-type lattice.

Related discussion: https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/5429

"redundancy" of super interfaces is fairly common in our collections hierarchy:

scala> def interfaceCount(cls: Class[_]) = {
  val m = collection.mutable.Map[Class[_], Int]().withDefaultValue(0)
  def loop(cls1: Class[_])
    cls1.getInterfaces.foreach(i => m(i) = (m(i) + 1))
    cls1.getInterfaces.foreach(loop)
    if (cls1.getSuperclass != null) loop(cls1.getSuperclass)
  }
  loop(cls)
  m
}
interfaceCount: (cls: Class[_])scala.collection.mutable.Map[Class[_],Int]

scala> println(interfaceCount(Nil.getClass).toSeq.sortBy(-_._2).mkString("\n"))
(interface scala.collection.GenTraversableOnce,75)
(interface scala.collection.Parallelizable,58)
(interface scala.collection.GenTraversableLike,58)
(interface scala.collection.generic.HasNewBuilder,32)
(interface scala.collection.GenIterableLike,26)
(interface scala.Equals,19)
(interface scala.collection.TraversableOnce,17)
(interface scala.collection.generic.FilterMonadic,17)
(interface scala.collection.TraversableLike,17)
(interface scala.collection.generic.GenericTraversableTemplate,15)
(interface scala.collection.GenTraversable,15)
(interface scala.collection.IterableLike,10)
(interface scala.collection.GenSeqLike,8)
(interface scala.collection.GenIterable,8)
(interface scala.collection.Traversable,7)
(interface scala.collection.SeqLike,5)
(interface scala.collection.Iterable,5)
(interface scala.collection.Seq,3)
(interface scala.PartialFunction,3)
(interface scala.Function1,3)
(interface scala.collection.GenSeq,3)
(interface java.io.Serializable,2)
(interface scala.collection.LinearSeqLike,2)
...


THE PROBLEM WAS REPRODUCIBLE WITH -Xint FLAG: Yes

THE PROBLEM WAS REPRODUCIBLE WITH -server FLAG: Yes

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
For instance, running a small main method in the standard library that depends on the Scala standard collections and prints some system properties to console:

Scala 2.11.8 (no default methods, available from http://scala-lang.org/download/2.11.8.html)


% time java -classpath ~/scala/2.11.8/lib/scala-library.jar scala.util.Properties
Scala library version 2.11.8 -- Copyright 2002-2016, LAMP/EPFL

real 0m0.262s
user 0m0.260s
sys 0m0.044s

Scala 2.12.0-RC1 (uses default methods, available from http://scala-lang.org/download/2.12.0-RC1.html)

% time java -classpath ~/scala/2.12.0-RC1/lib/scala-library.jar scala.util.Properties
Scala library version 2.12.0-RC1 -- Copyright 2002-2016, LAMP/EPFL

real 0m0.891s
user 0m0.877s
sys 0m0.074s

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
Expected: Comparable startup performance to before
Actual: 0.55s startup regression
REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

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I not yet created a Java benchmark to demonstrate this problem, but I can do so if requested.
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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
 - Restructure interface hierarchy to avoid excessive redundancy and depth
 - Avoid using default methods