RFR: JDK-8229871: Improve performance of Method.copy() and leafCopy()

[Peter Levart]

On 10/8/19 8:37 PM, Claes Redestad wrote:
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> On 2019-10-08 18:57, Kazunori Ogata wrote:
>> Hi Claes,
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>> Thank you for your review and comment.
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>> I was also wondering why only these two fields aren't initialized in the
>> constructor.  Shall I also make the change you mentioned?
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> I think it might be better as a follow-up, since there might exist some
> reason not to do that cleanup at all and I don't think we should hold up
> this improvement.

Perhaps the decision for methodAccessor to be absent from constructor 
was the fact that it starts as null and can later be set also in the 
following direction:

     root.methodAccessor = this.methodAccessor;

...in this case the `root` has already been constructed and `this` is 
what is being constructed. I prefer only one way of setting a particular 
field instead of two ways.

Regards, Peter

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> Thanks!
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> /Claes