On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:12:09 GMT, Bernd <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Would it be easier to remove the state (singleton, thread local) caching 
> completely? If somebody request a new instance just seed and return it. That 
> might in some situations be even less seeding than once per thread and it 
> decreases stat sharing even more.

ThreadLocal is basically a middle path. Creating a RandomIO to for access 
/dev/random each time 

> Would it be easier to remove the state (singleton, thread local) caching 
> completely? If somebody request a new instance just seed and return it. That 
> might in some situations be even less seeding than once per thread and it 
> decreases stat sharing even more.

that would require too many open and close of /dev/(urandom). ThreadLocal is 
basically the middle path. The singleton approach only needs one open and 
close, however it would require threads to be sync'ed to access /dev/(urandom)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11069

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