RFR: 8273581: Change the mechanism by which JDK loads the platform-specific FontManager class [v3]

Mon Sep 20 20:57:44 UTC 2021

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:47:18 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> So I guess the question is whether there is a valid transitory failure use case?
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>> The difference is that Holder will fail that way forever, while the DLC have a chance to resurrect on next call.
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> Is it really possible that next call will succeed after the previous one failed with an exception?

It may fail when one thread got OOM, but later another/this one will work fine. We can use a holder if there will be some real benefits from using it, but DCL is just simpler and safer in this particular case.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5517