Collection.toArray() call style

There are two styles to convert a collection to an array: either using a pre-sized array (like c.toArray(new String[c.size()])) or using an empty array (like c.toArray(new String[0]).
In older Java versions using pre-sized array was recommended, as the reflection call which is necessary to create an array of proper size was quite slow. However since late updates of OpenJDK 6 this call was intrinsified, making the performance of the empty array version the same and sometimes even better, compared to the pre-sized version. Also passing pre-sized array is dangerous for a concurrent or synchronized collection as a data race is possible between the size and toArray call which may result in extra nulls at the end of the array, if the collection was concurrently shrunk during the operation.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/build/src/main/java/org/aspectj/internal/tools/build/SampleGatherer.java b/build/src/main/java/org/aspectj/internal/tools/build/SampleGatherer.java
index ce7f2ce27..86782563f 100644
--- a/build/src/main/java/org/aspectj/internal/tools/build/SampleGatherer.java
+++ b/build/src/main/java/org/aspectj/internal/tools/build/SampleGatherer.java
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ public class SampleGatherer {
                             source,
                             startLine,
                             endLine,
-                            flags.toArray(new String[flags.size()]));
+                            flags.toArray(new String[0]));
                     sink.addSample(sample);
 
                     // back to seeking start
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ class SampleUtil {
         }
         next  = anchorName.substring(start);
         result.add(next);
-        return result.toArray(new String[result.size()]);
+        return result.toArray(new String[0]);
     }
     /**
      * Replace literals with literals in source string