JDK 10 RFR of 8182710: File.listRoots() always returns the root of CD drive

Roger Riggs Roger.Riggs at Oracle.com
Thu Jun 29 14:21:56 UTC 2017


+1, oh yes,

Just interesting how much attention this snippet of code received. :)

Roger


On 6/29/2017 10:18 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 6:58 AM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com 
> <mailto:Roger.Riggs at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>> Pretty code; though the part about creating an array to create a 
>> BitSet is a bit non-obvious.
>>
>> But how much garbage does it create and extra runtime doing all that 
>> fancy stuff.
>
> Probably either of the second two versions I posted generates more 
> than my original brute approach. Beaty at the expense of efficiency 
> perhaps.
>
>> Now if BitSet had a constructor from the bits in a long...
>
> Could be an RFE …
>
> Is this also a +1?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian



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