On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:58:41 GMT, jengebr <d...@openjdk.org> wrote: >> Agreed. You might as well be consistent with this so that no one will need >> to re-address if some application does zillions of clones of empty lists. > > Sorry, I crossed wires with @DougLea 's comment, will add `clone`.
`clone()` performs a shallow copy, so there is currently no `Object[]` allocated and therefore nothing to optimize. I don't think there's any work to do here. @DougLea @viktorklang-ora can you confirm? ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19527#discussion_r1627947686
