Various Random things (Was: Java 8 RFC 7189139: BigInteger's staticRandom field can be a source of bottlenecks)

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:

> On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Doug Lea wrote:
> 
>> Only adding isProbablePrime seems to be an OK conservative
>> move: no existing usages would be affected, but users would
>> need to somehow be told that they could improve performance
>> by changing their code to use the new method with
>> ThreadLocalRandom.current() as argument.
> 
> This is what I was thinking. Some verbiage update would be in order.

I have updated the webrev

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/7189139/

to add the two-parameter version of isProbablePrime() which was discussed. Naturally a CCC request would be needed in the event this were to go forward.

Comments welcome.

Thanks,

Brian