RFR: 8290079: Reduce interaction with volatile in static initializer of BigInteger

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:41:48 GMT, Сергей Цыпанов <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> `BigInteger.powerCache` is volatile and should be assigned only once in static initializer.

(Not a reviewer) While the change doesn't hurt, I doubt that access to a (static) volatile in a static initializer is ever contended.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9451