Jochen Theodorou

I don't see changes from double quotes to single quotes as formatting change, nor do I see a change from {} to {->} as such a change. So where any...

I only now did see this PR due to the comment from shils. I can understand the goal, but not exactly the change itself. What I would have done is...

@vipcxj I think you misunderstood me. I did mean a distance of 1 at the beginning of the null branch. At the end this distance is then shifted with OBJECT_SHIFT....

This is actually a big problem. For Groovy on the JVM there is no other way, than to more and more depend on invokedynamic. I think the suggestion of an...

It could be as easy as using retrolambda to transform the Groovy library. Then, as long as you use pre Groovy 3 it should work - maybe even for classes...

From my POV this is no solution. We are using soft references, because in the past a weak reference gave the class free too fast leading to the runtime constantly...

But the metaclass has hard references on the class it is a metaclass for I thought. Therefore it should be impossible to unload the classes without also or first unloading...

my suggestion: make a JMH based microbenchmark in which you compare two empty lists. One time with the old implementation and one time with the new implementation. This benchmark can...

that cost is constant yes I know. But that constant cost has to be seen in comparison with actual lists. But it is not the benchmark I would like to...

I think you misunderstood me a bit. toString is not a real problem. The performance of equals is though. That is why we need a benchmark for that