*** old/src/share/vm/code/nmethod.cpp	Tue Feb 25 14:00:58 2014
--- new/src/share/vm/code/nmethod.cpp	Tue Feb 25 14:00:58 2014

*** 2166,2194 ****
--- 2166,2190 ----
    ResourceMark rm;
  
    // Turn off dependency tracing while actually testing dependencies.
    NOT_PRODUCT( FlagSetting fs(TraceDependencies, false) );
  
    // 'dep_signature_buffers' caches already checked dependencies.
    DependencySignatureBuffer dep_signature_buffers;
  
+  GenericHashtable<DependencySignature, ResourceObj>* table = new GenericHashtable<DependencySignature, ResourceObj>(11027);
    // Iterate over live nmethods and check dependencies of all nmethods that are not
    // marked for deoptimization. A particular dependency is only checked once.
    for(nmethod* nm = CodeCache::alive_nmethod(CodeCache::first()); nm != NULL; nm = CodeCache::alive_nmethod(CodeCache::next(nm))) {
      if (!nm->is_marked_for_deoptimization()) {
        for (Dependencies::DepStream deps(nm); deps.next(); ) {
          // Construct abstraction of a dependency.
-         const DependencySignature* current_sig = new DependencySignature(deps);
!         // Determine if 'deps' is already checked. If it is not checked,
          // 'add_if_missing()' adds the dependency signature and returns
          // false.
          if (!dep_signature_buffers.add_if_missing(*current_sig)) {
!         // Determine if 'deps' is already checked. table->add() returns
+         // 'true' if the dependency was added (i.e., was not in the hashtable).
+         if (table->add(current_sig)) {
            if (deps.check_dependency() != NULL) {
              // Dependency checking failed. Print out information about the failed
              // dependency and finally fail with an assert. We can fail here, since
              // dependency checking is never done in a product build.
              ResourceMark rm;
              changes.print();
              nm->print();
              nm->print_dependencies();
              assert(false, "Should have been marked for deoptimization");
            }