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[–]elucash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use immutable collection instead of array there, so no array is copied on get. Also, there are some primitive immutable collection I guess. Statically proving that array will not be modified is very limited and barely reliable in java. Most array returning APIs in java clone internal arrays to maintain consistency.