jsr166y/openjdk resync

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Aug 12 11:52:25 UTC 2010


No problem Doug, I worked with Martin on the original jsr166y 
integration into JDK7 and can certainly help with these updates.

-Chris.

Doug Lea wrote:
> 
> A few months ago, we simplified some of the APIs to the ForkJoin
> classes (mainly, removing some methods so as to allow better
> internal automation). The "jsr1yy6" versions of these
> API changes have been in use since then, and we're confident
> that these changes (and corresponding internal implementation
> improvements) should go into the openjdk7 versions.
> In case you are curious, some discussions about them
> can be found in concurrency-interest list archives, including
> http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2010-June/007243.html
> 
> So we (mainly Martin Buchholz and I) would like to do this.
> Since they involve API changes, I suspect there might be some
> additional process requirements beyond us just doing the
> mercurial commits. If so, can someone let us know what they
> are? We already arranged to have corresponding JCK/TCK tests
> updated.
> 
> -Doug
> 



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