There's another reason to avoid these writes, besides CDS optimizations:
do-nothing writes generate useless card mark activity.
On 4/1/2019 7:57 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
Hi,
when a String has a calculated hash code value of 0, we recalculate and
store a 0 to the String.hash field every time (except for the empty
String, which is special cased). To make String objects more amenable to
storage in shared read-only memory, e.g., CDS archives, we should avoid
this redundant store.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8221723
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8221723/
Testing: tier1-3, no regression on existing and new StringHashCode
micros
/Claes
