Optimization in collections API

[Jason Mehrens]

Robert, If you can create a micro benchmark that fools all of the core-libs-dev or real world benchmark that actually shows performance improvements you might be able to get this patch in to the source code.
 
Previous attempts are covered under https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4375522 and https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6383986.
 
Looks like this latest version is covered under https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025706.  If 8025706 arrives at the same conclusion as the previous attempts maybe some comments should be added to explain what is not present in the code.

Jason 
> From: snazy at gmx.de
> Subject: Optimization in collections API
> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 11:34:01 +0100
> To: core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net
> 
> Hello,
> 
> many real business applications make intensive use of the collections api. I have spend some time and tried to improve it a bit:
> I've added a shared empty array instances to java.util.Arrays and use Arrays.EMPTY_OBJECT_ARRAY where appropriate in collection classes and reduce use of new java.util.Iterator instances where possible
> 
> The changes pass the existing tests in openjdk8 build (make test).
> 
> Robert
>