On Tue, 30 May 2023 09:15:13 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> UUID is very important class that is used to track identities of objects in 
>> large scale systems. Yet, the coverage in JDK test is disappointing: it 
>> tests only 100 of UUID instances per test, which is way too small to detect 
>> collisions due to the bad randomness for example.
>> 
>> I have some pending work to improve UUID performance, and tests should be 
>> improved. 
>> 
>> The improved test still runs in less than 5 seconds on my laptop.
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Review comments

test/jdk/java/util/UUID/UUIDTest.java line 79:

> 77:             }
> 78:             if (!set.add(u)) {
> 79:                 throw new Exception("UUID collision: " + u);

I would be concerned that if this failure was reported, it would be 
intermittent, hard to track down, and not reproducible.  Without a hook for the 
generator and the seed, its just going to be noise in the testing.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14134#discussion_r1210815388

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