On Jul 12 2013, at 10:07 , Doug Lea wrote: > [Also posted on concurrency-interest.] > > Thanks to all those sending quick feedback, both on and off lists! > We're increasingly confident about the value of adding > SplittableRandom, so will proceed with integration request. I'm sure > that we'll introduce incremental improvements during OpenJDK8 bake-in > phase, and apply some of the lessons learned to other code.
I have some comments along those lines from my experiences with murmur3... Most specifically, do we want to commit to a seeded version promising a deterministic sequence that would preclude future changes (including total replacement) to the generation algorithm? This constructor is certainly common for PRNG but seems at odds with the other goals. > But we > wanted to ensure that this is at least considered for inclusion along > with last of the other jsr166-related updates (that are all currently > in-process). > > Paul Sandoz will follow up on core-libs-dev with the CR details, on > his way out to a well-deserved vacation. So I may request help from > others for any Oracle process issues that might arise. Available and willing to help out on any process issues. > The CR is far > from the end of this process, so I also plan to post follow-ups as it > progresses. Do you foresee additional API changes or just implementation and performance changes? > -Doug >
