Re: Need reviewer: JDK 8 CR for Support Integer overflow

Hi Florian, On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote:

Will Hotspot be able to optimize away the string construction on the exception path in multiplyExact() if the exception is caught locally?

At least -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat should remove the need to construct a StringBuilder instance, in multiplyExact()'s case.

Cc'ing hotspot-compiler-dev for confirmation. - Kris