lkorinth
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I am Leo Korinth; I program stuff. I graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology with a M.Sc. in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering degree.
I am working for Oracle writing free software and improving garbage collection in OpenJDK.
What I write is my opinion and not the opinion of my employer.
If we have the code "if (x != null) { x.foo = 42; }", then it can rewritten as x.foo = 42 (with some extra magic in the runtime). If x is not null it will be faster if the cost of a branch is higher than zero. If x is…