RFR(M): 8044186 Introduce a reproducible random generator

[David Chase]

On 2014-09-19, at 5:03 PM, Igor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev at oracle.com> wrote:
> don't you need an additional check RANDOM_GENERATOR == null after line #355 to prevent double creating of Random which leads to the problems w/ reproducing on MT environments?

Alternately just drop the test inside the synchronized block, because how often do we call that anyway?

There’s one minor consolation, there’d be double-printing of initial values in the log file if that race happened.

David

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 801 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL: <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/attachments/20140919/5a373970/signature.asc>