RFR (S) 8059677: Thread.getName() instantiates Strings

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 11.11.2014 17:40, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 11/09/2014 09:45 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>> Thread.getName() returns String, and does new String instantiation every
>> time, because the thread name is stored in char[]. Even though we use a
>> private String constructor that shares the char[] array without copying
>> it, this still hurts some use cases (think extra-fast logging). To the
>> extent some people actually maintain Map<Thread, String> to avoid it.
>>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059677
>>
>> Here's the attempt to maintain String instead of char[]:
>>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.01.jdk/
>>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.01.hs/
> 
> Updated webrevs:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.02.jdk/
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.02.hs/

All right, third time a charm. All reviewers seem to be happy with these
changes:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.03.jdk/
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/webrev.03.hs/

Coleen had volunteered to sponsor them (thanks!), here are the changesets:
 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/8059677-jdk.changeset
 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8059677/8059677-hs.changeset

Thanks,
-Aleksey.