RFR: 8292679: Simplify thread creation in gtest and port 2 tests to new way [v2]

[Johan Sjölén]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:56:40 GMT, Johan Sjölén <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR removes a lot of boilerplate that was required when creating multi-threaded tests and ports 2 tests to show that the number of lines of code is significantly reduced and that porting is fairly trivial. The ported tests also serve as an introduction to others who're looking into writing their own multi-threaded tests.
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>> Testing: Ran the ported tests on my machine, also running the tests on x64 {Windows, Linux, Mac OS X],  aarch64 { Linux, Mac OS X} and tier1 for "completeness".
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> Johan Sjölén has updated the pull request incrementally with four additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Add some more comments
>  - Fix S to int for BasicTestThread too
>  - Remove S from TestThreadGroup and fix it to int for thread id
>  - Make N a constructor argument instead of a template one

Please review this version :-).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9962