100218: BigInteger staticRandom field (original) (raw)

Paul Ciprich paul.ciprich at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 14:44:15 UTC 2011

All,

I've created a bug report to address a scalability problem with BigInteger's staticRandom field. The problem is that the shared staticRandom field causes bottlenecks with parallel code. The proposed solution is to change the staticRandom field to a ThreadLocal and eliminate the bottleneck by giving each thread its own copy of the SecureRandom object. Bug 100218 contains a patch with the proposed change if it is deemed acceptable.

Thanks, -Paul Ciprich

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