Java 8 RFC 7189139: BigInteger's staticRandom field can be a source of bottlenecks

[Brian Burkhalter]

With respect to this issue

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7189139

any comments on this potential fix

file:///Users/bpb/Work/JSL/jdk/jdk8/tl8/jdk/7189139/index.html

would be appreciated.

Rudimentary testing with JMH (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/) did not reveal any deleterious performance effects in single-threaded operation nor any obvious improvements in the dual threaded case but testing was done on on my aging Core 2 Duo notebook and is not likely representative of anything approaching real world conditions.

Thanks,

Brian