[BCEL-242] Remove Serializable

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Charles Honton
• Created: 13/Aug/15 02:04
• Updated: 14/Jul/16 12:48
• Resolved: 19/Aug/15 21:49

Description

While we're in the midst of bringing BCEL up to date, can we remove the unnecessary code.

It is unlikely that any application needs to serialize BCEL state and the class that BCEL generates is already "serialized". (And serializatoin is hard to get right)

It is unlikely that opcodes or instructions need to be compared, so equals/hashCode is excess.

Cloning is hard to get right and probably not necessary.