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Donnchadh Ó Donnabháin updated FREEMARKER-214:
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Attachment: javacc-7.1.2-diff.txt
> New LookAheadSuccess instance created for each instance of FMParser
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> Key: FREEMARKER-214
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-214
> Project: Apache Freemarker
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Donnchadh Ó Donnabháin
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: javacc-7.1.2-diff.txt
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> Each instance of FMParser creates a new instance of LookAheadSuccess.
> In our case, where we tend to work with a lot of FreeMarker templates (in
> some cases generating freemarker template as an intermediate representation
> of a more abstract form), this has had a couple of impacts:
> 1. LookAheadSuccess extends java.lang.Error which adds noise to our Java
> Flight Recorder recordings, similar to the situation described in
> [http://hirt.se/blog/?p=1288]
> 2. Each instance fills in a stack trace, causing unnecessary object
> allocation, given that
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> These issues (non-static LookAheadSuccess instance, extending
> java.lang.Error, populating a stack trace) have been addressed in JavaCC 7 in
> the following PR
> [https://github.com/javacc/javacc/pull/99/files]
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> If it seems reasonable, I would be willing to create a PR to update
> FreeMarker 2.3 to Java CC 7.x. The unit tests do seem to pass with Java CC 7.
>
> If upgrading JavaCC is deemed undesirable, the approach used to make the
> class static in
> [https://github.com/apache/freemarker/blob/2.3-gae/build.xml#L157] could
> probably also be used to make the instance final.
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