--- Comment #4 from ian dot rogers at manchester dot ac dot uk 2008-02-07
12:10 ---
There are two improvements described here:
1) avoid synchronization by the use of StringBuilder rather than StringBuffer
this is some what trivial and has largely been carried out in the Classpath
--- Comment #5 from ian dot rogers at manchester dot ac dot uk 2007-05-16
14:01 ---
For the following code given in [1] GCC produces identical multiplication by
constant code [2]. I think as 0x0 is one of the parameters in this bug
the fact we generate identical multiplication