[10] RFR 8134512 : provide Alpha-Numeric (logical) Comparator

[Claes Redestad]

On 2017-09-28 16:22, Jason Mehrens wrote:
> Admittedly this is more of a Claes Redestad faster boot up type change but, the use of the AlphaDecimalComparator constructor in Comparator might force the bytecode verifier to force load AlphaDecimalComparator just to check the return type.
>
> If you make factory methods in AlphaDecimalComparator you can usually craft the return type to match and the verify of Comparator will not force load the AlphaDecimalComparator.
> Otherwise, the more ugly solution is to wrap 'new' with Comparator.class.cast.
>
> Jason

... you called? :-)

You're probably right in the general case, but I think we avoid this 
particular startup issue here since the (HotSpot) bytecode verifier by 
default doesn't check classes defined to the the boot loader.

/Claes