Automatic Resource Management, V.2

[Mark Thornton]

Joshua Bloch wrote:
>
> I did think about this, but I opted to stick with the pattern in enum types'
> values() method.  That decision was made for performance. Arguably the
> performance issues are less important here, and the winds of change have
> blown further away from arrays since then, so I'm definitely open to
> switching this to a List if others think it's the right thing to do.
>
>   
Surely the VM is able to optimise away the trivial accessors in an 
immutable List backed by an array, and has been capable of this for 
quite a while? I really wonder if there was ever any significant 
performance gain obtained from this choice. In any case I vote for a List.

Mark Thornton