On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:28:02 GMT, Viktor Klang wrote:
>> Brent Christian has updated the pull request incrementally with one
>> additional commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Elaborate on 'surprising and undesirable effects' in reachabilityFence()
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/r
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:38:30 GMT, Brent Christian wrote:
>> Classes in the `java.lang.ref` package would benefit from an update to bring
>> the spec in line with how the VM already behaves. The changes would focus on
>> _happens-before_ edges at some key points during reference processing.
>>
Is it worth keeping the discussion starting with "It is sometimes possible
to better encapsulate ..." and the associated example code? I find this
example extremely unconvincing. It's very hard to construct a case in which
you can safely use the result of getExternalResource(). And I don't want to
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:38:30 GMT, Brent Christian wrote:
>> Classes in the `java.lang.ref` package would benefit from an update to bring
>> the spec in line with how the VM already behaves. The changes would focus on
>> _happens-before_ edges at some key points during reference processing.
>>
> Classes in the `java.lang.ref` package would benefit from an update to bring
> the spec in line with how the VM already behaves. The changes would focus on
> _happens-before_ edges at some key points during reference processing.
>
> A couple key things we want to be able to say are:
> - `Refer
