RFR JDK-8011200 (was 7143928) : (coll) Optimize for Empty ArrayList and HashMap

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/04/2013 23:50, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Hello again;
>
> I have updated the patch with the received review feedback. The revised webrev is here:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8011200/1/webrev/
>
> The important changes in this revision:
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> - The behaviour of the readObject/writeObject serialization for both classes now more closely mirrors the behaviour of clone(). For ArrayList this means that the deserialized list has a capacity the same as the size. ie. as if trimToSize() was called. For HashMap, the opposite is true, the capacity is the same as was in effect when the object was serialized. (HashMap also tries to protect itself from nonsensical/harmful input). The implementation changes to serialization preserve forward and backward compatibility--all serialized objects are compatible with all implementations. I will file a spec change request for the addition of ", a power of 2" to the @serialData tag for this existing but previously unstated requirement.
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> - Use of Arrays.fill has been reverted. I did change one fill case so that the loop can be optimized. (size field was being updated with each iteration). I very slightly expanded the docs.
>
> This is starting to look like a nice set of changes.
>
> Mike
This does looks much nicer.

For ArrayList.ensureCapacity then it might be useful to include a 
comment to make it clear that it's a no-op when the ArrayList is created 
with the default and ensureCapacity(n), for n < 10. I had to read it a 
few times to satisfy myself that it's right.

One thing that I'm not sure about is HashMap.readObject using the bucket 
count from the serialized stream. We can't predict all usages of course 
but this has the potential for the table to be much bigger than we need.

Otherwise I think this looks okay to me. I didn't quite get the reason 
for splitting out the update to the @serialData description but maybe 
you want to separate the changes to make it easy to backport.

-Alan.