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

[Andrew Haley]

On 2/18/20 5:46 PM, Patricio Chilano wrote:
> I see that we seem to agree on changing the default value for
> UseBiasedLocking to false. There was some discussion previously on this
> thread on whether we should also deprecate the flags at the same time to
> give more visibility to the change and increase the chances of getting
> feedback earlier, which I think some people might still argue for.

The short-term-supported (STS) versions of the JDK don't get much
visibility.  I suspect that unless you do something pretty drastic
in an STS release no-one will notice.

So, if we're going to start to back out biased locking, let's do it
visibly and with full force.

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