RFR: 8300176: URLEncoder/URLDecoder static fields should be private static final [v2]

[Darragh Clarke]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:25:29 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

> As a rule of thumb if you get the approximate same results when running the same benchmark back to back and the difference between your baseline and test results is decidedly larger than the sum of the errors then you can have a reasonably high confidence in the results.
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> If errors are too high for comfort (or effect too small) you should first consider if your benchmarking system can be made quieter (e.g. turning off browsers, slack, IDEs, turn off hyperthreading, turbo boost, apply firmware updates, put the box in a freezer, don't move, don't make a sound...!), then if you're still not getting comfortably consistent results you can increase the amount of forks, warmup and measurement iterations you're running with.

So I did some runs yesterday and then a few more today and it seems like on my machine the average time dropped around 15% for the `EncodeDecode` test,  It seemed pretty consistent with that though I'm sure I was far from thorough

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12122