Request for reviews (M): 7085860: JSR 292: implement CallSite.setTargetNormal and setTargetVolatile as native methods

Charles Oliver Nutter headius at headius.com
Thu Sep 8 13:13:03 PDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> Yes, looks good.  (I agree with Tom that "volatile_put" is harder to read
> than "put_volatile".  In the latter formulation, "volatile" modifies "put"
> more clearly.)

"volatile put" says to me "it may or may not happen...it's volatile
like that!" :)

- Charlie


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