Avoid unnecessary volatile write on new AtomicBoolean(false)

[Christoph Dreis]

Hi Claes,

> the bots probably don't send out the RFR because it has no linked issue.
> I've created an RFR for you: 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8254146

Thanks for your help!
I've updated the PR title, but apparently still no email sent to core-libs. 
At least the checks are green. Maybe there is some greater delay here!?

Cheers,
Christoph

On 2020-10-07 10:32, Christoph Dreis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> forgive me if this is not the right approach after the move to GitHub, but apparently there was no mail sent to the mailing list with this one.
> I’ve opened https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/510  to improve the performance of calls to new AtomicBoolean(false).
> 
> The mentioned PR would need sponsoring from someone, which I would highly appreciate.
> If there's any change to the sponsoring process, please let me know as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christoph
> 
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