The standard doclet works by creating `HtmlDocument` objects and then writing them out. Writing them can be safely done on a separate thread, and doing so results in about an 8% speedup, by overlapping the write/IO time with the time to generate the next page to be written.
The overall impact on the codebase is deliberately small, coming down to a critical `if` statement in `HtmlDocletWriter` to "write now" or "write later". As such, it is easy to disable the feature if necessary, although no issues have been found in practice. The background writer uses an `ExecutorService`, which provides a lot of flexibility, but experiments show that it is sufficient to use a single background thread and to block if new tasks come available while writing a file. The feature is "default on", with a hidden option to disable it if necessary. ------------- Commit messages: - JDK-8002152: javadoc could write out files on a worker thread Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2665/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=2665&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8002152 Stats: 268 lines in 9 files changed: 265 ins; 0 del; 3 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2665.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/2665/head:pull/2665 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2665
