On 18/12/2018 16:44, Steve Groeger wrote:
Hi all,
I am proposing an enhancement to ArrayList.java to improve its
performance.
ArrayList has a constructor which takes an arbitrary Collection as a
parameter. This constructor will create an iterator over the collection
and it will add each entry returned to the ArrayList.
We have found that quite a lot of the time the object passed as a
parameter is in fact an instance of ArrayList.
In the case of an ArrayList it is possible to significantly increase the
performance of the method since there is no need for an iterator - the
backing array can be directly copied.
ArrayList is not final so it's possible someone has extended it to use
something other than elementData. It might be safer to use the class
identity rather than instanceof.
-Alan
