8006409: ThreadLocalRandom should dropping padding fields from its serialized form (original) (raw)

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Wed Feb 27 17:55:10 UTC 2013

On 02/27/2013 05:10 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:

CVS has been updated with some more internal doc clarifications.

http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/main/java/util/concurrent/ThreadLocalRandom.java?view=co

Thanks Martin,

Once the CCC approves these changes, I will push them to jdk8.

-Chris.

Martin's "random" wishlist: - I wish the cool convenience methods in TLR like nextInt(least, bound) could be promoted to Random.java, or perhaps to a utility class Randoms.java - I wish that TLR didn't continue to extend the life of Random's poor PRNG, and at least provide one with a 2**64 period. I don't see much value producing a sequence compatible with Random, given that setSeed is not available. but it's probably too late.

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