Bug ID: JDK-8035906 Revisit stable fields (JMM) and Unsafe use (Enhanced Volatiles) in numerics code

JDK-8035906 : Revisit stable fields (JMM) and Unsafe use (Enhanced Volatiles) in numerics code

Type: Task
Component: core-libs
Sub-Component: java.math
Affected Version: 9

Priority: P4
Status: Open
Resolution: Unresolved

Submitted: 2014-02-26
Updated: 2018-09-11

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Related Reports

Relates :	JDK-8033491 - Review numerics code for potential updates to new language and library features
Relates :	JDK-8035908 - Review improving the cache of powers of each radix in BigInteger

Description

This issue is intended to track the discussion in this core-libs-dev discussion

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-February/025202.html

in particular this branch

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-February/025331.html

and saliently

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-February/025348.html