On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 12:17:07 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aiva...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>>private static final int EXPECTED = 5; >> >> this var is used only in main, so I kept it as local variable. > > There's a difference between _a local variable_ that it is now and _a > constant_ declared at the class level. In the latter case, the compiler may > eliminate the constant and inline its value; in the former case, it can't do > it. > > I am still for making it a real constant declared at the class level as per > my suggestion above. Updated. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17961#discussion_r1512740249
