On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 10:38:53 GMT, Peter Levart <plev...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Right, in that case, it should remain.
>
> But, ... is any code path accessing the elements of the @Stable array by
> constant indexes? Only in that case would the annotation have any effect on
> the JIT-ed code. Otherwise it's just a waste of space.
... I can only see the array being cloned and not accessed directly. I don't
belive cloning a @stable array is any different in JIT-ed code as cloning
normal "mutable" array unless JIT "sees" through it and scalarizes the values
of the cloned array. For example, if you have the following:
static final Method method = ....;
@Benchmark
public Object getParameter0() {
return method.getParameters()[0];
}
...would it run faster when the parameters field was marked as @stable as
opposed to not?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9143
