JEP 193: Enhanced Volatiles

[Brian Goetz]

> Why not go for something far less intrusive then?

I'm all for unintrusive.  Though note that the intrusiveness metric on 
language features I(f) is not uniform across observers :)

> Here's my straw man
> proposal:
>
> Add an annotation that can be placed on native methods to synthesize
> atomic accessor methods.

I suspect you were expecting this response: we don't add language 
semantics through annotations.

I'm not trying to frustrate you; evolving a language with millions of 
users is really, really hard.  And one of the things that makes it hard 
is recognizing our intrinsic conflicts of interest between "what good 
will this do me" and "what harm will it do others."