On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:41:49 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]> wrote:

> I remember there was some discussion around the Inflater cache usage and how 
> it may impact the performance. In this PR we have changed the policy on which 
> Inflater we hand out from the cache, I would like to make sure that it 
> doesn't have any unforeseen impact.

Sure! My gut feeling is that a more recently used Inflater should if anything 
have better performance based on more recently used memory buffers. But who 
knows.

I know that Martin investigated the usefulness of this cache (a 'pool' really?) 
and found it questionable:

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8156484

> src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/zip/ZipFile.java line 719:
> 
>> 717:             synchronized (inflaterCache) {
>> 718:                 if (!inflaterCache.isEmpty()) {
>> 719:                     return inflaterCache.removeLast();
> 
> The use `removeLast()` I think is fine. Can you add a one liner comment here 
> to say something like:
> 
> // return back the most recently used Inflater from the cache of not-in-use 
> Inflaters

Added comment as suggested.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29430#issuecomment-3934165851
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29430#discussion_r2833034302

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