RFR [8011215] optimization of CopyOnWriteArrayList.addIfAbsent()

[Martin Buchholz]

Thanks for this change.  There is a tradeoff here.  If the element is never
present, then the older code might be a little faster, because we can avoid
re-traversing the array.  Otherwise, the new code is better.

I prefer it your way (I hate unneeded allocation), but the code was
intentionally written the other way.  Let's hear from Doug...

Martin


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com>wrote:

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>   Please review my proposal for the CopyOnWriteArrayList.addIfAbsent()
>> method optimization.
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>> http://washi.ru.oracle.com/~igerasim/webrevs/8011215/webrev/index.html
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>  This URL is not readable by external reviewers.
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> The webrev has been copied here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8011215.ivan/
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>   The "master" version of CopyOnWriteArrayList is here:
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> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/main/java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList.java?view=markup
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>    Thanks for the link!
> I see that the code in the master version is identical to the one I've
> been working on.
> So the optimization still could be applied.
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> Sincerely,
> Ivan
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