RFR 8231264: Disable biased-locking and deprecate all flags related to biased-locking

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/27/19 10:30 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> If biased locking were determined important to JNI code, it would be
> interesting to consider how its performance gains relate to the
> general JNI overhead.

JNI overhead is significant, partly because of the need for the
VM-native state changes to be atomic. I don't think a couple of CAS
operations will make a large difference.

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