On Thu, 20 May 2021 19:25:38 GMT, Alexander Zuev <kiz...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Here I am not talking about specification, I am talking about the usage of >> it, is the instanceof+cast is helpful? It does not look good, why we cannot >> always return MRI? > >> Here I am not talking about specification, I am talking about the usage of >> it, is the instanceof+cast is helpful? > > It is necessary until all the consequences of always returning of MRI is > extensively tested on all the supported platforms and it does not cause any > serious regression or visual degradations. So for now i would not enforce MRI > usage in this method which means use base image class instead and do the cast > later. I did not get how you will be able to force use MRI later since this method is implemented as a return icon. So this choice should be made before integration. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2875
