<i18n dev> RFR: 8263561: Re-examine uses of LinkedList

[Alan Bateman]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:18:11 GMT, Сергей Цыпанов <github.com+10835776+stsypanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> If that's the only use case, I recommend changing the return type to a deque, and replace the linked list with an array deque instead (as done elsewhere in this pr)
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> Looks like it's never specified in JavaDoc which particular implementation of List is used in fields of affected classes, so it's quite odd to me that someone would rely on that when using reflection. But your point about backward compatibility is reasonable, so I'll revert mentioned changes.

Nothing outside of the JDK should be hacking into this private field of a non-exposed class, this should not be a concern here.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2744