Need reviewer: JDK 8 CR for Support Integer overflow

[Krystal Mok]

Hi Florian,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at 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