On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:59:55 GMT, Jeanette Winzenburg <faste...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I can't answer(, but my intuition is a pattern of lack of skill). >> Officially, I don't know because the history is interrupted. > > digging a bit: the BitSet was introduced with > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8093144 to solve some problem > with selectionModels - don't know whether those still hold (there had been > extensive changes to selection since then). Thank you for searching for the origin of this strange code. However, as far as I read the comments, my intuition seems to be correct. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/305