RFR (S): JEP-142: Reduce Cache Contention on Specified Fields

[Michael Barker]

>> I've been asking this on concurrency-interest@, but let's go through
>> this here. Imagine some weird Christmas miracle had happened, and
>> @Contended is actually available starting some JDK 7 update. Will that
>> change anything in the adoption scenarios we are speculating now?

Actually looking at the JDK8 M6 feature list, I'll look to maintain a
generic binary and JDK8+ binary as I'll probably want to make use of
the fence intrinsics.  So adding support to JDK7 probably wouldn't
help that much.

Mike.