RFR: JDK-8146568 NegativeArraySizeException in ArrayList.grow(int)

[Martin Buchholz]

 webrev refreshed -
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk9/Vector-grow/

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> sorry for jumping on this conversation lately,
> please don't be seduced by the dark side,

Too late!  I've already committed such changes to ArrayList.java.
No one would do this sort of bytecode golf if it didn't have
measurable effects on microbenchmarks.
We've been asking hotspot maintainers to kill their
method-bytecode-size heuristics for a long time, but still no sign of
it happening.

> I understand that the code is 1 byte bigger, but i think that the following code
>   final int s = this.size;
>   Object[] elementData = this.elementData;
>   if (s == elementData.length) {
>       elementData = grow();
>   }
>
> is more readable than
>   final int s;
>   Object[] elementData;
>   if ((s = size) == (elementData = this.elementData).length)
>       elementData = grow();


Vector.insertElementAt is not performance critical, and not near
MaxInlineSize, so I did as you ask.

In core libraries readability is slightly less important than performance.