RFR: Optimize StringBuilder.append(null) (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Mon Apr 8 23:43:33 UTC 2013


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

On 03/28/2013 07:29 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:

The declaration saves 50 bytes of bytecode.

I don't understand ?

Copying a field into a method local results in fewer bytes of bytecode, which may tickle hotspot into inlining the method for you. Although it's hard to demonstrate this.



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