(Spec Review) 8002356: Add ForkJoin common pool and CountedCompleted

[Chris Hegarty]

On 07/11/2012 13:51, Doug Lea wrote:
> On 11/07/12 07:06, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> I would like to start review discussion of the spec changes to
>> ForkJoinXXX ( add
>> a default common pool, task tags, and other minor updates ), and the
>> addition of
>> CountedCompleter, as part of part of JEP 155 [1].
>
> Please hang on a while longer. The common pool updates enabled addressing
> issues mainly including the very long wakeup times sometimes seen on
> power-managed, core-fused, and oddly scheduled platforms, but I haven't
> yet checked in all the corresponding changes because I'm still testing,
> and will then want Aleksey to help confirm impact on lambda-libs
> before fully committing. ETA is still about a week.

No problem. I just wanted to start the discussion around the spec 
changes. Let's postpone this for a week or so.

-Chris.

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> -Doug
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