On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 03:26:26 GMT, Stuart Marks <sma...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @dholmes-ora and @dfuch both your observations are quite valid and I agree >> with them. If you look at the [JBS >> issue](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8340572), we discussed this topic >> there. >> >> Clarifying the collections' behavior with regard to when to throw a CME, and >> hopefully making that behavior be consistent would be a welcome enhancement. >> As things stand, the scope of this fix is just ensuring that the behavior of >> ArrayList reverts back to what it was prior to my optimization, since the >> change triggered a test failure in some Google test suite. All the while >> recognizing that the behavior was not particularly consistent to begin with. > > @szegedi Thanks for starting this. Just a couple comments on the test. > > 1. It would be good to have a test case that verifies that sorting the entire > list **does** increment modcount, in addition to the existing test case that > tests that sorting a sublist **does not** increment modcount. (As before, > this is arguably not the correct behavior, but it's the behavior that the > system exhibited prior to JDK-8325679.) > 2. It would be good for the test to have a more descriptive name than just > the bug ID. Something like SortingModCount or similar would be fine. > > Thanks. @stuart-marks and @liach thanks, those are good suggestions – done. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21250#issuecomment-2392185387