[GROOVY-11415] Bytecode for identity

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0-alpha-9, 4.0.22
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Daniel Sun
• Created: 22/Jun/24 00:35
• Updated: 26/Jun/24 20:53
• Resolved: 22/Jun/24 01:45

Description

The bytecode for === and !== is to invoke static method, e.g. compareIdentical, compareNotIdentical.

We could generate better bytecode by leveraging IF_ACMPEQ, IF_ACMPNE, which is same to the bytecode generated by Java compiler.