On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 23:18:04 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In the current implementation of `String.join(CharSequence, Iterable)`, the 
>> temp array `elems` is always initialized with a length of 8. It will cause 
>> many array recreations when the `Iterable` contains more than 8 elements. 
>> Furthermore, it's very common that an `Iterable` is also a `Collection`. So 
>> if the `Iterable` is an instance of `Collection`, the initial length of the 
>> array can be `((Collection<?>)elements).size()`. It will not change the 
>> current behavior even if the `Collection` is modified asynchronously.
>> 
>> I don't know whether this change requires a CSR request.
>
> Have you considered the performance impact on concurrent collections, that 
> their size() computation is non-constant, and the array still may need 
> resizing later (which you've kept, good)

@liach Thanks for reminding that. Some collections such as 
`java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedDeque` require O(n) time to compute the 
`size`. I will benchmark it as well.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13383#issuecomment-1500996891

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