JDK 8 code review request for 6838776 Defer initialization of static fields in java.math.BigInteger

[Mike Duigou]

Looks good. Nice little performance tweak.

You may want to use ExceptionInInitializerError rather than plain Error.

Mike

On Sep 2 2011, at 17:44 , joe.darcy at oracle.com wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Please review this change to only instantiated an Unsafe object in BigInteger and BigDecimal if serialization is done:
> 
>   6838776 Defer initialization of static fields in java.math.BigInteger
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/6838776.0/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe