CFV: Project Valhalla

[Chris Hegarty]

Vote: YES

-Chris

> On 21 Jun 2014, at 02:44, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I hereby propose the creation of Project Valhalla with myself as the Lead and the HotSpot group as the sponsoring group.
> 
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will provide a venue to explore and incubate advanced Java VM and Language feature candidates such as Value Types [2], Generic Specialization [3], enhanced volatiles [4] (and possibly other related topics, such as reified generics.)
> 
> The initial Reviewers and Committers will be:
> 
> * Brian Goetz
> * John Rose
> * Paul Sandoz
> * Maurizio Cimadamore
> * Paul Govereau
> * Dan Smith
> * David Chase
> * Mike Duigou
> * Vladimir Ivanov
> * Albert Noll
> 
> The project will host at least the following mailing list:
> 
> * valhalla-dev for developers
> 
> and may eventually host specification lists if one or more JSRs is subsequently created.
> 
> The initial source of this project will be based on a clone of a JDK 9
> repository.  Changes from the JDK 9 parent will be synced into Valhalla periodically.  Similar to Project Lambda, we will follow a "commit first, review later" policy, as code will not flow directly from the Valhalla repositories into the JDK repositories, but instead will be done by a "curated merge" where select changes are extracted into new changesets for incorporation into JDK repositories when they are ready for inclusion.
> 
> Votes are due by July 7, 2014.
> 
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> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html
> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046267
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/193
> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote