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

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 06/26/2013 12:56 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
> Sorry, you are storing back when resizing. And you are resizing for
> every exponent that is bigger that previous requested (cached). This can
> lead to many resizings.

Dmitry had suggested going back to square one with his approach. I'll
let him post his suggestion (I think it is simpler than both our versions).

-Aleksey.