This look good to me. I'm really happy to see these do away. I'll help clean up other areas too.
-Chris > On 11 Apr 2014, at 20:22, Mike Duigou <mike.dui...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hello all; > > This is a simple cleanup changeset that removes redundant initialization of > fields to null from a number of collection classes. These field > initializations may seem cheap but they do have a cost: > > - For volatile fields there is a measurable cost on some benchmarks for these > extra initializations. > > - Larger byte code in <init> methods. > > - For transient fields the initialization is misleading since it does not > occur on deserialization. > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035284 > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8035284/0/webrev/ > > Redundant null initializations in other components/packages will be handled > in separate issues. > > Mike
