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Zero-length array allocation

Reports allocations of arrays with known lengths of zero.

Since array lengths in Java are non-modifiable, it is almost always possible to share zero-length arrays, rather than repeatedly allocate new ones. Such sharing may provide useful optimizations in the program runtime or footprint.

Note that the inspection does not report zero-length arrays allocated as static final fields, since those arrays are assumed to be used for implementing array sharing.

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023