RFR: Some patches for sherman

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, John.
> I need to adjust my expectations.  The word "constant" means something
> different to hotspot engineers.
>
> I'm still hoping to someday simply say,
> "here's a final field - just go ahead and trust that it's truly final"
>

In retrospect, I think this wording in the docs raised my expectations:

"""a final stable field is treated as if it is really final from both the
Java language and the HotSpot VM."""


>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:38 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The docs for @Stable don't spell this out as clearly as one
>> might want, but this sentence comes closest:  "More specifically,
>> the HotSpot VM will process non-null stable fields (final or
>> otherwise) in a similar manner to static final fields with respect to
>> promoting the field's value to a constant."
>>
>