I am targeting to have the performance improvements you contributed to UUID into 8u40 (around the end of the year). I expect to contribute the work into OpenJDK 9 in June-Julyish.
Mike On Apr 8 2014, at 09:34 , Steven Schlansker <stevenschlans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 7, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Mike Duigou <mike.dui...@oracle.com> wrote: >> >>> I also note that UUID does not currently support version 5, SHA-1, which it >>> should. >>> >>> I am hoping to do other performance work on UUID within the scope of Java >>> 9. Adding additional Comparators would fit right in with that. >>> >> >> OK, although it might be nice to bash this on the head sooner? as it might >> be possible to get into an 8u release depending on what we conclude about >> backwards compatibility. > > If random-end-user opinions count for anything, I would strongly +1 for an 8u > update with this. We are still porting around routines to bypass UUID’s > from/toString because they are embarrassingly inefficient, and it would be > nice to ditch that code before 9 ships :) >
