RFR 8003981: Support Parallel Array Sorting - JEP 103

[Chris Hegarty]

Doug, 

Just a quick question/confirmation, you are ok with the threshold not being exposed I the API, right?

-Chris

On 21 Dec 2012, at 18:24, Doug Lea <dl at cs.oswego.edu> wrote:

> On 12/20/12 12:31, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> This is a review request for the addition of utility methods to java.util.Arrays
>> that provide sorting of arrays in parallel, JEP 103 [1].
> 
> A side-note on this: Suitable Object/Comparable versions of
> DualPivot sort might someday be better fits to the parallel split
> logic and locality patterns than current Arrays.sort.
> Vladimir and I discussed this briefly a few years ago, but I
> don't know if they were ever developed.
> 
> Otherwise, on quick glance, despite the now-huge vertical-space usage :-),
> the updated webrev looks OK to me.
> 
> -Doug
>