On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:45:16 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> It would not break the code functionally if that invariant ever breaks: we >> would "just" call the (intrinsic) method on zero hash code. That `implNote` >> only shows that it would not happen with current implementation at all. > > From that impl note it seemed like it was a big deal for hash code to never > return 0 for an object. Could you maybe de-emphasize the importance of that > HotSpot behavior in the note? All right, we can change "This allows to treat zero as the marker..." to "This makes zero a convenient marker...", I think? ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13491#discussion_r1168731359
