RFR 8014076: Arrays parallel and serial sorting improvements

[David Holmes]

Hi Chris,

Didn't Doug's changes also remove the constraint:

"The algorithm requires a working space equal to the size of the 
original array."

?

David

On 8/05/2013 12:51 AM, 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.