RFR-8148748: ArrayList.subList().spliterator() is not late-binding

[Tagir F. Valeev]

Hello!

Thank you for clarification. As far as I know currently JIT-compiled
null checks are almost always implicit (via trapped page-fault). Well,
ok, I'm not a Hotspot expert (probably for C1 this still matters). I
will keep this code as is.

Webrev was not changed:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tvaleev/webrev/8148748/r1/
Any more reviews, please?

With best regards,
Tagir Valeev.

MB> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:20 AM, Tagir F. Valeev <amaembo at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Some more thoughts about forEachRemaining:
>>
>> To me it seems that
>> if ((a = lst.elementData) != null)
>> is a redundant check as well as in current ArrayList implementation
>> elementData is never null. So it can be replaced with simple
>> assignment.

MB> The null check for something that is provably non-null is a sign of
MB> the hand of Doug Lea.
MB> I'm often tempted to try to remove them from j.u.concurrent as well,
MB> but I resist.
MB> They may help hotspot generate better code.