On 13/05/2015 12:51, Claes Redestad wrote:
Hi,
9-b33 introduced a sustained regression in SPECjvm2008
xml.transform on a number of our test setups.
JDK-8058643 removed the check on value.length > 0, which
means repeated calls to "".hashCode() now do a store of the
calculated value (0) to the hash field. This has potential to
cause excessive cache coherence traffic in xml.transform[1]
I remember the original change but of course didn't spot that empty
String would result in a write of 0. I like Shipilev's First Law.
The patch looks good to me.
-Alan.