RFR JDK-7092821 "java.security.Provider.getService() is synchronized and became scalability bottleneck"

[Sean Mullan]

On 12/14/18 1:57 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 02:09:50PM +0000, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>> Maybe a comment should point to the description of this pattern (if it
>> applies):
>> https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/seccodeguide-139067.html#4-5
> 
> +1
> 
> Do document what initialized/checkInitialized() are about.  Now I'm wondering
> whether it's been thought through well enough and whether assumptions when that
> was written still hold.

I am pretty sure it can be removed and that it is no longer necessary, 
but things like this are usually worth another closer look before 
removing. In any case, I opened a follow-on issue to look into removing 
this: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215512

--Sean

> 
> (And maybe the language needs syntactic support for this pattern.)
> 
> Nico
>