Refresh - Java 8 RFR 8017540: Improve multi-threaded contention behavior of BigInteger.toString() radix conversion cache

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/06/2013 19:24, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> This Request for Review is a refresh of this thread
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> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/018337.html
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> pertaining to this issue
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> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017540
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> The webrev has been updated in the same location
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8017540/
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> Basic JTREG sanity testing has been performed.
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> Thanks,
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> Brian
This looks to me too and I can sponsor this.

One final thing that crossed my mind is whether we might need insert a 
SoftReference someday so that it can be GC'ed when there is memory 
pressure. It's not needed now but something to thing about.

-Alan