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

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:35:50 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> `BigInteger.powerCache` is volatile and should be assigned only once in static initializer.
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> (Not a reviewer) While the change doesn't hurt, I doubt that access to a (static) volatile in a static initializer is ever contended.

@rgiulietti AFAIK volatile access is more expensive than plain one regardless contention

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