RFR 8014076: Arrays parallel and serial sorting improvements

[Chris Hegarty]

On 05/11/2013 12:46 AM, Mike Duigou wrote:
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> On May 10 2013, at 07:14 , Chris Hegarty wrote:
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>> Updated webrev and specdiff.
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>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8014076/ver.01/specdiff/java/util/Arrays.html
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> Docs changes look fine to me.
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>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8014076/ver.01/webrev/
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> ArraysParallelSortHelpers::
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> - It's strange to see serialversionid defined for classes that will never be serialized.

I think this is mainly to keep the compiler happy. We could suppress the 
warning, rather than add the serialVersionUID, but I don't think it is 
worth changing at this point. It can be revisited later if necessary.

> ParallelSorting::
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> - Arrays.MIN_ARRAY_SORT_GRAN does this reference still work?

Thanks, it has been removed.

-Chris.

> Otherwise changes look good to me. (Depending very much on regression testing to ensure correctness of the algorithm).
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>> I incorporated the feedback so far, and reverted the change to make MIN_ARRAY_SORT_GRAN public ( there doesn't appear to be enough justification for this ).
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>> -Chris.
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