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  2. JDK-8148044

Remove Enum[0] constants from EnumSet and EnumMap

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      EnumSet and EnumMap each have a

      private static final Enum<?>[] ZERO_LENGTH_ENUM_ARRAY = new Enum<?>[0];

      In EnumMap it's unused, but in EnumSet it's used for serialization purposes:

          SerializationProxy(EnumSet<E> set) {
              elementType = set.elementType;
              elements = set.toArray(ZERO_LENGTH_ENUM_ARRAY);
          }

      Having these constants is hardly justified[1] and incurs an ever so slight startup/footprint cost by loading Enum[].class

      [1] http://shipilev.net/blog/2016/arrays-wisdom-ancients/#_caching_the_array

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