Question

What’s a difference between “FRAME FULL” and “FRAME APPEND”?
I check 2 ways to use iterators:

int size = 0;
Iterator<String> it = l.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
    String s = it.next();
    int length = s.length();
    size += length;
}

int size = 0;
for (String s : l) {
        int length = s.length();
        size += length;
}

they both use iterators, but bytecode is a bit different.

Answer 1

The frame type append_frame is used when the operand stack is empty and the current locals are the same as the locals in the previous frame, except that k additional locals are defined. Frame type full_frame is used when all other types are not applicably, it is also less compact one.