6897553: LinkedList performance improvements
Summary: LinkedList of size N creates N+1 instead of N+2 objects. Comparing against null is faster than comparing against sentinel node
Reviewed-by: dl, jjb, forax
6897993: (se) Close or cancel performance issue when number of pending updates is high (lnx)
Summary: Use O(1) Iterator instead of O(N) operations on LinkedList updateList
Reviewed-by: alanb
Contributed-by: Igor Chernyshev <igorc@google.com>