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

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Aug 23, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:

> With respect to this issue
> 
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7189139
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> any comments on this potential fix
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> file:///Users/bpb/Work/JSL/jdk/jdk8/tl8/jdk/7189139/index.html

Correction to this webrev link:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/7189139/

D'oh.

> 
> would be appreciated.
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> 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