RFR 8037106: Optimize Arrays.asList(...).forEach

[Mike Duigou]

Looks good to me. There are some additional optimization opportunities but they can certainly wait.

Mike

On Mar 14 2014, at 05:04 , Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This patch overrides some default methods with more optimal ones for the Arrays.asList implementation:
> 
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8037106-arrays.asList.forEach/webrev/
> 
> It required some surgical work on tests to shove in the Arrays.asList test case, since it is a factory method and does not support structural modification.
> 
> There are of course other optimizations that could apply to Arrays.asList, namely that of sub-list, but i have left that as another future possible exercise (plus further work could be done to Abstract/List, including providing a Spliterator for List & RandomAccess).
> 
> Paul.