RFR: 8325679: Optimize ArrayList subList sort [v5]

[Chen Liang]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 08:12:55 GMT, Attila Szegedi <attila at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Somewhat surprisingly, `ArrayList$Sublist.sort()` is not specialized and will thus fall back to slower default method of `List.sort()` instead of sorting a range of the array in-place in its backing root `ArrayList`. 
>> 
>> This doesn't change observable behavior, so haven't added tests, and `tier1` tests still all pass except for `test/jdk/java/util/Locale/LocaleProvidersFormat.java` which also currently fails on master too on the machine I tested on.
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> Attila Szegedi has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Updated copyright years and added a bug id

Thanks for the updates!

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Marked as reviewed by liach (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17818#pullrequestreview-2280014817