RFR: 8065233: Remove Policy provider code that synchronizes on identityPolicyEntries List

[Sean Mullan]

On 05/22/2015 10:33 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Looks good.
>
> Are you also going to remove the policy.ignoreIdentityScope definition
> inside jdk\src\java.base\share\conf\security\java.security?

Good catch. I thought that had been removed as part of JDK-6876158. Let 
me think this over a bit first.

--Sean

>
> Thanks
> Max
>
>
> On 5/22/2015 10:25 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
>> This is the second in a series of fixes for JEP 232 (Improve Secure
>> Application Performance) [1].
>>
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mullan/webrevs/8065233/webrev.00/
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065233
>>
>> This fix removes some obsolete synchronization code from the Policy
>> implementation. This results in a slight improvement (about 2-4%) in the
>> throughput of the Policy.getPermissions method. The bug contains a
>> performance chart with more details.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sean
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/232