Patch: Remove exception catching from normal path in Arrays.equals.
David Daney
ddaney@avtrex.com
Wed Sep 10 17:56:00 GMT 2003
Tom Tromey wrote:
>David> Currently all variants of java.util.Arrays.equals() catch
>David> NullPointerExceptions to detect null valued parameters. In one
>David> of our programs this is a fairly common case and the
>David> throw/catch overhead was significant.
>
>This has bugged me too -- thanks. This can go in once your paperwork
>clears... I gather that shouldn't be long now.
>
>
It appears that my "assignment process with the FSF is now complete".
David.
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