On Fri, 27 May 2022 14:18:19 GMT, Claes Redestad <redes...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> In preparation of #8855 this PR refactors the conversions from `List` to
> array and array to `List`, reducing the number of conversions when calling
> `MethodHandles.dropArguments` in particular. This remove about ~5% of
> allocations on the `StringConcatFactoryBootstraps` microbenchmark.
src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles.java line 5266:
> 5264: */
> 5265: public static MethodHandle dropArguments(MethodHandle target, int
> pos, List<Class<?>> valueTypes) {
> 5266: return dropArguments(target, pos, valueTypes.toArray(new
> Class<?>[0]).clone(), true);
Isn't this call to `clone()` unnecessary, as `valueTypes.toArray` should either
return the passed empty array, or a newly created array?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8923
