Hello everybody!
Would you please review my proposal to change constructor of
CopyOnWriteArraySet?
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmeetry/8005953/webrev.0/
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edmeetry/8005953/webrev.0/>
Currently, the body of the constructor is like this:
al = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<E>();
al.addAllAbsent(c);
The addAllAbsent() function has O(c.length^2) complexity, so
construction time quickly grows with the input size.
However, if we knew that c is a Set, we could construct the COWAS in
linear time.
And if the c was known to be another COWAS, we could simply clone the
underlying CopyOnWriteArrayList.
The webrew also includes a test I used to make sure nothing is broken.
Sincerely yours,
Ivan
