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

[Doug Lea]

On 01/14/13 17:58, Chris Hegarty wrote:

>> I'm not sure what we are saving here. Since new TLR is a singleton, we
>> save ~64 bytes per classloader. Worth messing with advanced
>> serialization mechanics? Probably not. I'll publish a revised webrev soon.
>
> serialPersistentFields is really quite simple, and will help avoid any potential issues like this in the future. I can help implement this on top of your patch if you like.
>

Thanks to Alan and Aleksey for noticing this and to Chris for
offering some serialPersistentFields incantations!

(The only way to serialize a TLR represents a strange abuse to
begin with. You'd need to save the result of
ThreadLocalRandom.current() in a field of a serialized object.
Which would be a terrible idea ...)

-Doug