RFR: 8362958: Unnecessary copying / sorting in Streams using Comparator.naturalOrder()

Patrick Strawderman duke at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 11 02:53:23 UTC 2025


When `Comparator.naturalOrder()` was explicitly supplied to a collection such as `TreeSet`, or passed into the `sorted` method of a stream, the sorted characteristic was not preserved, causing unnecessary buffering and duplicate sorting.

Example:


TreeSet<Integer> sortedSet = new TreeSet<>(Comparator.naturalOrder());
sortedSet.add(1);
sortedSet.add(2);
// SortedOps.OfRef.opWrapSink is not a no-op
sortedSet.stream().sorted().forEach(System.out::println);

or

TreeSet<Integer> sortedSet = new TreeSet<>();
sortedSet.add(1);
sortedSet.add(2);
// SortedOps.OfRef.opWrapSink is not a no-op
sortedSet.stream().sorted(Comparator.naturalOrder()).forEach(System.out::println);


This PR updates `SortedOps.makeRef` and `StreamOpFlag.fromCharacteristics` to handle the above cases and avoid the unnecessary sort step.

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Commit messages:
 - 8362958: Unnecessary copying / sorting in Streams using Comparator.naturalOrder()

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28226/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28226&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8362958
  Stats: 19 lines in 4 files changed: 14 ins; 0 del; 5 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28226.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28226/head:pull/28226

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28226


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