Re: generics in ASM

Ben Evans wrote:
>  OK, I'll bite. Why would anyone care about pre-1.5 compatibility
>  these days? Java 5 is EOL - it's dead, so why does it make sense to
>  ship anything with support for older versions of Java than 5?

  Because we can. :)

  Anyways, the only packages that exposing non-generified collections to 
the user API are asm.tree and asm.tree.analysis the rest is just 
internally used collections.

  Internally, in a few places, ASM breaks the rules of strongly-typed 
collections and storing different objects within the same collection and 
then using instanceof instead of virtual lookup. That stuff could be 
rewritten to be strongly typed, but that will likely increase an 
in-memory representation of the tree model. Anyways, performance impact 
should be compared for any code changes.

  regards,
  Eugene

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