RFR : 8023395 : (xs) Remove sun.misc.Sort and sun.misc.Compare

[Joe Darcy]

Looks good.

-Joe

On 08/21/2013 11:33 AM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Hearing significant consensus to remove rather than deprecate these two classes I am revising this proposal remove rather than deprecate. The revised webrev (which removes the classes) is here:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8023395/1/webrev/
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> I have verified that they are unused within the JDK. Mandy provided one external example that uses these classes rather than java.util.Arrays for unknown reasons. I will attempt to contact the project and advise them to switch.
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> Mike
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> On Aug 21 2013, at 11:10 , Stuart Marks wrote:
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>> On 8/20/13 11:27 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
>>> On 08/20/2013 11:07 AM, Mike Duigou wrote:
>>>> Hello all;
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>>>> This is a proposal to deprecate (Any votes for outright removal?)
>>> Yes; take them out!
>> Me too! Just take 'em out. Unlike some other sun.misc APIs :-/ there are already suitable public alternatives for these.
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>> s'marks
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