[7u6] Request for Approval 7118743 : Alternative Hashing for String with Hash-based Maps

[Mike Duigou]

Hi,

This is a request to include an enhancement into JDK 7u6:
  7118743: Alternative Hashing for String with Hash-based Maps

The enhancement is currently under review on corelibs-dev (and was cross-posted here) :
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-May/010238.html

The latest webrev is at:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/althashing7/9/webrev/

I hope to push in time for the b12 build to:
  ssh://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev-gate/jdk

Note that a second commit will be pushed before b13 to change a critical configuration default. b12 is being intentionally built with the default set to a non-standard value for easier testing.

Thanks!

Mike