Interesting - couldn't you promote this fix as a minor performance improvement as well to knock out would would be a pointless instanceof in the case of ""?
public boolean contentEquals(CharSequence cs) { if (cs == null) { throw new NPE; } if (cs.length() != count) { return false; } if (cs.length() == 0 && count == 0) { return true; // since both are empty strings } if (cs instanceof StringBuffer) { return contentEquals(...); } else { return regionMatches(...); } } Nathan Beyer wrote: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-719 > > > > This issue identifies a valid bug in java.lang.String and good patch to fix > it. Does anyone have any objections to applying this patch or any comments? > > > > -Nathan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]