RFR 8010325 : Remove hash32() method and hash32 int field from java.lang.String

[Brent Christian]

Thanks for the reviews, everyone.  I will change the nits mentioned. 
And I need a sponsor.

Thanks,
-Brent

On 6/12/13 9:10 AM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Looks good to me.
>
> Mike
>
> On Jun 11 2013, at 13:32 , Brent Christian wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review my fix for 8010325.  Some background:
>>
>> The alternative string-hashing implementation[1] added to java.lang.String a new public method, hash32(), as well as a new private int field to cache the alternate hash value.
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>> Following 8005698 [2] and 8005704 [3], the new method and field in String are no longer used.
>>
>> By updating a couple lines in Hashtable/HashMap/WeakHashMap, the internal sun.misc.Hashing class can also be removed.
>>
>> The webrev is here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/8010325/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Brent
>>
>> 1. http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/43bd5ee0205e
>> 2. http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8005698
>> 3. http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8005704
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