RFR 8003981: Support Parallel Array Sorting - JEP 103

[Doug Lea]

On 12/21/12 14:09, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Just a quick question/confirmation, you are ok with the threshold not being exposed I the API, right?
>

Yes, I think I argued against exposing it initially :-)

-Doug


> -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
>>
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