RFR: Optimize StringBuilder.append(null)

[Remi Forax]

On 03/28/2013 07:29 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr 
> <mailto:forax at univ-mlv.fr>> wrote:
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>     On 03/27/2013 03:01 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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>     Hi Martin,
>     the code looks good,
>     I've just noticed that you declare the char array value final in
>     appendNull
>     but it's not something that is usually done in the java.lang codebase.
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> It's certainly common in java.util.concurrent.  It's safer.

I was talking about the *local variable* in appendNull() ?
IMO, marking the local variable final makes the code less readable


>  The declaration saves 50 bytes of bytecode.

I don't understand ?

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