7062169: (coll) micro-optimize ArrayList.remove(Object)
Reviewed-by: martin, psandoz, igerasim

8177789: fix collections framework links to point to java.util package doc
Reviewed-by: bchristi, martin

8170484: Miscellaneous changes imported from jsr166 CVS 2016-12
Reviewed-by: martin, smarks, psandoz

8143577: optimize ArrayList.removeIf
8169679: ArrayList.subList().iterator().forEachRemaining() off-by-one-error
8167202: ArrayDeque improvements
8164793: new ArrayDeque(2**N) allocates backing array of size 2**(N+1)
8169739: LinkedBlockingDeque spliterator needs to support node self-linking
8169738: CopyOnWriteArrayList subList needs more synchronization
Reviewed-by: martin, smarks, psandoz, forax

8167005: Comment on the need for an empty constructor in ArrayList$Itr
Reviewed-by: smarks, shade, chegar

8166840: Synthetic bridge constructor in ArrayList$Itr blocks inlining
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, mhaupt, forax

8079136: Accessing a nested sublist leads to StackOverflowError
Reviewed-by: psandoz, tvaleev

8148748: ArrayList.subList().spliterator() is not late-binding
Reviewed-by: psandoz

8146568: NegativeArraySizeException in ArrayList.grow(int)
Summary: improve management of internal array
Reviewed-by: smarks

8133188: docs: replace <tt> tags (obsolete in html5) for java.util
Reviewed-by: martin

6260652: (coll) Arrays.asList(x).toArray().getClass() should be Object[].class
Summary: return Arrays.copyOf(a, a.length, Object[].class)
Reviewed-by: igerasim, psandoz

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com