RFR(S): 8067471: Use private static final char[0] for empty Strings

[Lev Priima]

Aleksey,

Thanks for exhaustive research. Looks formal enough to claim that both 
variants of change bring only perf advantages, but, as I understand, 
which one is better is not so straightforward.

On 12/19/2014 04:11 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 03:41 AM, Lev Priima wrote:
>> By naive glance, new constructor thrpt is  bigger(jdk9/dev vs 9b42
>> in attach) on:
>>      @Benchmark
>>      public String getNewString() {
>>          return new String();
>>      }
> This is how you do it:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8067471/
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8067471/performance.txt
>
> In short, I don't see any show-stoppers here.
>
>> Please suggest things to compare . Do we have bigapps-like benchmarks
>> which may show regression on this?
> Not sure if there is such a benchmark in our pool. You may run
> SPECjbb2005 and SPECjvm2008 to double-check.
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey.
>

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Best Regards,
Lev