RFR 8014076: Arrays parallel and serial sorting improvements

[Mike Duigou]

The "currently" MIN_ARRAY_SORT_GRAN statement bothers me. Can we remove currently? I would expect to see currently if the numerical value of MIN_ARRAY_SORT_GRAN was presented. We may change the threshold but we're otherwise committed to the constant name for the threshold.

Mike

On May 7 2013, at 07:51 , Chris Hegarty wrote:

> Doug has made some updates to the java.util.Arrays sorting code to provide stable sorting. There have also been some changes to the original Parallel Array Sorting ( MIN_ARRAY_SORT_GRAN is public again ).
> 
> Right now a copy of this work is sitting in the lambda repo. This issue proposed to integrate this work into jdk8.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8014076/ver.00/specdiff/java/util/Arrays.html
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8014076/ver.00/webrev/
> 
> Thanks,
> -Chris.