On Mon, 5 Oct 2026 17:03:58 GMT, Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The map is not intended to be exposed to clients, so there's no need to
>> create a defensive copy.
>
> The idea was to:
> 1. Let the method return an immutable collection in all cases
> 2. Reduce memory consumption ("shrink-wrap" the results)
> 3. Possibly improve performance by using a read optimized collection
>
> But none of that is critical, it's fine in any case 👍
Ah, thanks for clarifying!
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/33133#discussion_r4186712499