On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:58:54 GMT, Claes Redestad <redes...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> During work on #12453 @schlosna reported that `array.clone()` might > underperform `System.arraycopy` in microbenchmarks and I opted to go with > `arraycopy` throughout while investigating. > > Testing on x86 (SandyBridge, AVX2) I observe no difference at all between the > setups. On aarch the only difference I can observe is that arraycopy seem > curiously slow for input size = 0, otherwise no statistically significant > difference. All tests ran on builds from JDK mainline and 21-b9. > > Since the reported difference was small and mostly visible on very large > arrays I conclude that the maintainability win we get from using `clone()` is > preferable. I've added the microbenchmark provided by @schlosna here. Thanks for reviewing ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12613
