Casting reference array to any-T array.

[Vitaly Davidovich]

I don't think we need specialization for this, just reification.
Specialization would help what Mike was talking about (at the cost of bloat
if not controlled somehow).

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On Jan 7, 2015 8:21 PM, "Richard Warburton" <richard.warburton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > The current functionality continues with the erasure plan.  However, I
>> > wouldn't mind doing better!
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I can't immediately think of a critical reason why it can't stay
>> erased.  For JIT optimizer, having a narrower upper bound on the type may
>> make its life easier, although I don't know if it'll have any material
>> difference.
>>
>
> At the moment a lot of collection classes have checkcast overhead on
> reads. For example List.get() or Map.get() both end up checkcasting their
> return value IIRC. Specialising the ref implementation gives you the
> opportunity to remove this checkcast.
>
> regards,
>
>   Richard Warburton
>
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>