JIT code generation for Long/Integer.compare

[John Rose]

On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Also, why would anyone do "Long.compare(a, b) < 0" when it's actually "a
> < b"? Should we actually care about this (arguably) code smell?

Smelly code arises naturally from well-written code after inlining and type sharpening.

— John
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