RFR: 8332842: Optimize empty CopyOnWriteArrayList allocations [v4]

[duke]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:17:25 GMT, jengebr <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Improve `java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList` by eliminating needless cloning of Object[0] instances. This cloning is intended to prevent callers from changing array contents, but many `CopyOnWriteArrayList`s are allocated to size zero, or are otherwise maintained empty, so cloning is unnecessary.
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>> Results from the included JMH benchmark:
>> Before:
>> 
>> Benchmark                                                    Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.clear                          avgt    5  74.487 ± 1.793  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.clearEmpty                     avgt    5  27.918 ± 0.759  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceArray            avgt    5  16.656 ± 0.375  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceArrayEmpty       avgt    5  15.415 ± 0.489  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceCollection       avgt    5  21.608 ± 0.363  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceCollectionEmpty  avgt    5  15.374 ± 0.260  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceDefault          avgt    5  15.688 ± 0.350  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.readInstance                   avgt   10  2625.125 ± 71.802  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.readInstanceEmpty              avgt   10  2607.447 ± 46.400  ns/op
>> 
>> 
>> After:
>> 
>> Benchmark                                                    Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.clear                          avgt    5  75.365 ± 2.092  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.clearEmpty                     avgt    5  20.803 ± 0.539  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceArray            avgt    5  16.808 ± 0.582  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceArrayEmpty       avgt    5  12.980 ± 0.418  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceCollection       avgt    5  21.627 ± 0.173  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceCollectionEmpty  avgt    5  12.864 ± 0.408  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.createInstanceDefault          avgt    5  12.931 ± 0.255  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.readInstance                   avgt   10  2615.500 ± 30.771  ns/op
>> CopyOnWriteArrayListBenchmark.readInstanceEmpty              avgt   10  2583.892 ± 62.086  ns/op
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> jengebr has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Expanding coverage of remove()

@jengebr 
Your change (at version 2ff93ab6f752ad285411d635c7755e9f47a571b2) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19527#issuecomment-2288866419