I and others have tried to track down the compiler issue in which this change
was made. If anyone can point us in the right direction it would be nice to
reference that issue.
Mike
On Apr 11 2014, at 13:09 , Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
>> On 11 Apr 2014, at 21:04, Mike Duigou wrote:
>>
>> Appar
> On 11 Apr 2014, at 21:04, Mike Duigou wrote:
>
> Apparently javac did at elide the "extraneous" null initialization at one
> point and it was deemed to have been contrary to point #4 of the procedure in
> JLS 12.5
> (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-12.html#jls-12.5-220-
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 wrote:
>
> Hello all;
>
> This is a simple cleanup changeset that removes redundant initialization of
> fields to null from a number of collection c
Apparently javac did at elide the "extraneous" null initialization at one point
and it was deemed to have been contrary to point #4 of the procedure in JLS
12.5
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-12.html#jls-12.5-220-D)
Mike
On Apr 11 2014, at 12:57 , Martin Buchholz wrote
On 04/11/2014 11:22 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035284
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8035284/0/webrev/
This! Thumbs up.
> Redundant null initializations in other components/packages will be handled
> in separate issues.
I also remember seeing c
Looks fine mike
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On Apr 11, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Hello all;
>
> This is a simple cleanup changeset t
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
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