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Type profiles have two failure modes: First, a method might be compiled before its profile exists and is "mature", so that no stable conclusions can be drawn about operands in that method. Second, a method might be used from many different contexts with independent operand types (as with ArrayList.contains), so that the profile becomes "polluted" by many independent types. A polluted profile contains the first few (2) encountered types with low counts, and a high total count that signals that the ReceiverTypeData structure was too small.

Polluted profiles stem from the fact that a method (containing generically reusable code) has only one profile structure, but the method is reused from a variety of contexts, providing a variety of operand types.

Polluted profiles can be mitigated by a number of means, including:

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 Polluted profiles are discussed here.

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