Thread.getState() very slow

[Mandy Chung]

Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> Some input from the original implementors would be useful (Martin? Mandy?
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> I don't know anything about the implementation of Thread.getState.  Mandy?
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I'm on vacation and will return on Thurs.   We didn't do much 
optimization in the implementation.   It has been a while and I need to 
look at the implementation to comment on it further (will do that when I 
return from vacation).

Mandy