RFR 8003981: Support Parallel Array Sorting - JEP 103

[Paul Sandoz]

On Dec 21, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 12/21/2012 01:49 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> The specdiff is missing the Object variants for some reason.
> 
> Sorry, I should have noticed this. There was an old version of specdiff in my environment. I regenerated the specdiff ( it's all there ), and updated the original specdiff link.
> 
>> Otherwise this looks pretty much as I remember it. :)
> 
> Good to hear that!
> 
>> There is an open question as to whether MIN_ARRAY_SORT_GRAN should be
>> configurable/overridable.
> 
> My opinion, for what it's worth, is to keep this out of the API.

+1 to keep it out of the public API.

It's the type of configurable thing that is useful for testing purposes but i don't think we should expose users to the black art of selecting the best threshold to switch from divide and conquer to sequential evaluation.

Paul.