On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:52:46 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @AlanBateman -- could you please take a look? Thanks. > >> @AlanBateman -- could you please take a look? Thanks. > > There was a lot of heap analysis done a few years ago that shined a light on > the number of empty collections in a typical heap. I don't recall seeing > COWAL in any of the data but it seems plausible that there are cases where > there are a lot of empty COWAL instances in the heap. > > Main thing for a change like this to make sure it doesn't hurt other cases > and check if there are overridable methods used in the existing + updated > implementations that might get reported as a behavior change by something > that extends and overrides some methods. I don't see anything so I think it's > okay. > > One thing that surprises me is the change to remove(Object) to handle the > case where the last remaining element is removed. Does that help the > application that prompted this change? Part of me wonders if remove(int) > needs to do the same as someone will show up sometime to ask. > @AlanBateman review please. Yes, I think this is okay. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19527#issuecomment-2288745837