Webrev updated at

   https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8210476/webrev.01/

The only change is that there is a single Cleaner now for the whole PRNG class. 
Otherwise, each will maintain its own thread.

Thanks
Max

> On Nov 11, 2018, at 11:30 PM, Weijun Wang <weijun.w...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Please take a review at
> 
>   https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8210476/webrev.00/
> 
> Before this fix, every PRNG::nextBytes calls all of CryptAcquireContext, 
> CryptGenRandom, and CryptReleaseContext. Now, CryptAcquireContext is called 
> once in PRNG::new, and CryptReleaseContext is called by a Cleaner, and 
> nextBytes only calls CryptGenRandom.
> 
> I haven't read about thread-safety in any MS document, the current 
> Windows-PRNG service is marked ThreadSafe=true (in SunMSCAPI.java). If we 
> cannot be really sure, we can change it to false.
> 
> I've downloaded nearly 1000 Mach5 runs of this test, the enhancement is so 
> good that I adjusted the test to be stricter.
> 
>       Before  After
>       ------  -----
> Count 897     74
> Min   0.38    0.008
> Ave   0.97    0.011
> Max   5.81    0.021
> 
> Please advise me if the following usage of Cleaner is correct because I 
> really haven't observed the releaseContext method being called.
> 
> +        Cleaner.create().register(this,
> +                () -> releaseContext(ctxt));
> 
> Thanks
> Max
> 

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