RFR: Here are some Thread cleanup patches

Wed Mar 28 17:54:51 UTC 2018

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 4:30 AM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> I was wondering how Martin made the decision to mark it with @Stable. In
> addition to the above, the ID is mostly used in tracing.  I'd like to see
> performance number for adding @Stable.
>

OK, I had "no good reason" for using @Stable here, except that all these
core library classes are fundamentally performance sensitive.  @Stable has
been removed.

8200123: Replace Thread.init with telescoping constructor
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/jdk/Thread-init/
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200123