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Unnecessary structural type in collection.Iterator's implementation #4791

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scabug opened this issue Jul 12, 2011 · 3 comments
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Unnecessary structural type in collection.Iterator's implementation #4791

scabug opened this issue Jul 12, 2011 · 3 comments
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scabug commented Jul 12, 2011

Copy&pasting what I reported to scala-internals list:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/scala-internals/pMTwrmZbPy0/discussion

I just made a discovery that in trunk's Scala library there's one use of structural type. It's being used in implementation of Iterator.span (Iterator.scala:508).

I'm pretty sure that structural type in that place is not intended and is there only because type inference inferred structural type. Given the fact that structural types are not very efficient on JVM I consider this as a bug that might affect the performance. Patch below fixes that problem.

diff --git a/src/library/scala/collection/Iterator.scala b/src/library/scala/collection/Iterator.scala
index c9f7500..afcd28f 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/collection/Iterator.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/collection/Iterator.scala
@@ -507,7 +507,14 @@ trait Iterator[+A] extends TraversableOnce[A] {
    */
   def span(p: A => Boolean): (Iterator[A], Iterator[A]) = {
     val self = buffered
-    val leading = new Iterator[A] {
+
+    /**
+     * Giving a name to this iterator (as opposed to trailing) because
+     * anonymous class is represented as a structural type that trailing
+     * iterator is referring (the finish() method) and thus triggering
+     * handling of structural calls. It's not what's intended here.
+     */
+    class Leading extends Iterator[A] {
       private var isDone = false
       val lookahead = new mutable.Queue[A]
       def advance() = {
@@ -528,6 +535,7 @@ trait Iterator[+A] extends TraversableOnce[A] {
         lookahead.dequeue()
       }
     }
+    val leading = new Leading
     val trailing = new Iterator[A] {
       private lazy val it = {
         leading.finish()
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scabug commented Jul 12, 2011

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scabug commented Jul 12, 2011

@adriaanm said:
let's assign this to someone in the meeting

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scabug commented Jul 13, 2011

Commit Message Bot (anonymous) said:
(grek in r25283) Get rid of structural type in Iterator.scala

Implementation of Iterator.scala defined a structural type
by mistake. By naming a class we get rid of that structural
type.

Fixes #4791. No review.

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