RFR (S): JDK-8191328: Avoid unnecessary overhead in CRC32C

[Dmitry Chuyko]

On 11/15/2017 06:38 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
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> On 15/11/2017 15:27, Dmitry Chuyko wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> Please review a performance enhancement for java.util.CRC32C pure 
>> Java implementation.
> Moving the nativeOrder out of the loop make sense but I'm curious 
> about the context for improving this implementation. You mentioned it 
> helps -Xcomp but that is typically for testing. Is there some 
> environment that is disabling the HotSpot intrinsic?
There may be no intrinsic (zero, arm) or there may be no Hotspot (J9, 
Excelsior, Android).
But I spotted it in -Xcomp because it was unclear why people make their 
own pure Java implementations instead of using and contributing to 
core-lib classes.

-Dmitry
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> -Alan