Thanks, Alan.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>
wrote:

>  On 25/08/2014 18:37, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
>  Hi friends of ByteArrayOutputStream,
>
>  I'm trying to clean up an apparent oversight when I tried to fix huge
> array resizing back in
> 6933217: Huge arrays handled poorly in core libraries
>
>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055949
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk9/ByteArrayOutputStream-MAX_ARRAY_SIZE/
>
>  The 2x capacity gap was noticed by real users!
>
> The change to BAOS looks okay, I don't recall why it wasn't updated with
> the previous changes.
>
> I'm not sure about adding a test with @ignore though, maybe the @test
> should just be dropped to avoid the temptation to "fix" the test before
> there is support for selecting tests based on the resources available.
>
>
jtreg tests are run by default with -ignore:quiet and there is precedent
for other tests with such @ignore statements, and I actually used jtreg
-ignore:run to really test this.

What I would really like someday is to be able to run expensive tests (like
this one) only if a user expressly requested them.

Anyways, I'm intending to submit as is unless you feel strongly.

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