RFR 7065380 : Allow Collections.sort to sort Collections.singletonList() result

[Rémi Forax]

On 03/01/2012 08:50 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Hello all;
>
> Currently Collections.sort() refuses to sort the lists which result from calling Collections.singletonList(). This makes some sense because the singleton lists are immutable but they are also alway sorted.
>
> This patch allows Collections.sort() to be used with empty and singleton lists of all types. A short circuit return is provided for lists of length 0 and 1 as they are already sorted.
>
> WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/7065380/0/webrev/
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> For the unit test ignore the diffs and view the "New" file--webrev doesn't understand "hg copy".
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

Is it not better to check list.size() before calling toArray() ?

Rémi