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Sebb commented on BCEL-242:
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I agree that supporting serialisation seems completely unnecessary.
Cloning is also probably unnecessary; if we can make most classes immutable
then they don't need cloning anyway.
> Remove Serializable, Clonable, hashCode, equals
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> Key: BCEL-242
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-242
> Project: Commons BCEL
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Charles Honton
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> While we're in the midst of bringing BCEL up to date, can we remove the
> unnecessary code.
> It is unlikely that any application needs to serialize BCEL state and the
> class that BCEL generates is already "serialized". (And serializatoin is
> hard to get right)
> It is unlikely that opcodes or instructions need to be compared, so
> equals/hashCode is excess.
> Cloning is hard to get right and probably not necessary.
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