RFR: 8248862: Implement Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators [v3]

[Jim Laskey]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:16:20 GMT, Rémi Forax <github.com+828220+forax at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jim Laskey has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   8248862: Implement Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators
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>>   Changes to RandomGeneratorFactory requested by @PaulSandoz
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/random/RandomGeneratorFactory.java line 46:
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>> 44: import java.util.stream.Stream;
>> 45: import jdk.internal.util.random.RandomSupport.RandomGeneratorProperty;
>> 46: 
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> Instead of calling a method properties to create a Map, it's usually far easier to use an annotation,
> annotation values supports less runtime type so BigInteger is not supported but using a String instead should be OK.

I kind of like the idea - not sure how expressive a BigInteger string is though. I might be able to express as <i, j, k>  BigInteger.ONE.shiftLeft(i).subtract(j).shiftLeft(k). Will ponder.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1292