On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 15:12:22 GMT, Andy Goryachev <ango...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>> would it be easier just to pass a boolean to the constructor? we are >>> changing the public API anyway... >> >> Usually boolean parameters are not a good API choice, but I have no strong >> opinion on this one. What do you prefer? > > I just think it's much simpler than an annotation... > > Or it could be a public instance method `boolean isSupportReconstruction()` > for the child classes to override, saving N (1? 8?) bytes per instance. But the annotation costs no bytes per instance, if that even matters, as I thought these were singletons so it looks like we're quite into micro-optimization territory here. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1522#discussion_r1707250058