RFR (S): CR 8005926: (thread) Merge ThreadLocalRandom state into java.lang.Thread

[Dr Heinz M. Kabutz]

We can probably fake the serialized form with some field descriptors
and a writeObject and readObject method.  Then we can keep the format
exactly the same as previously.  The serialized form should not stop
us from optimizing this very important class.  Just my 2c

On 15/01/2013, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2013 02:17 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> The other thing I notice is that the serialized form of the original
>> ThreadLocalRandom included the padding fields, I guess they should have
>> been transient in the original implementation.
>
> Damn. These *are* the part of TLR serialized form :(
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/serialized-form.html#java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom
>
> Also, the class changes probably screwed up the SUID. I think we need to
> get the padding back (which should not be the problem since TLR is now a
> singleton, and add the SUID with the previous value.
>
> -Aleksey.
>


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