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Spliterator.trySplit() ?

SASWATA MANDAL
Member Posts: 5 Red Ribbon
Hi Experts ,
The trySplit() method of java.util.Spliterator<T> can return null or Spliterator<T>. So, since it can return null , its return type should be Optional<Spliterator<T>> . Optional<T> is introduced in JAVA 8 to handle NullPointerExceptions. So , why Optional is not used as its return type ?
Thanks & Regards
Saswata Mandal
Answers
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The main reasons behind such a design decision:
- trySplit is used internally in the JDK library (so no urgent need to expose a user-friendly API)
- performance reasons to avoid an overhead of boxing/unboxing Optional (it's part of setting up a parallel pipeline, so to make it efficient it's better to avoid unnecessary performance overhead).
Stuart Marks (Java architect) has described those two reasons in details in his post at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30252175