RFC: 8204690: Simplify usage of Access API

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Mon Jun 11 21:44:14 UTC 2018


> On Jun 11, 2018, at 4:57 PM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
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> On 6/11/18 3:36 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> The use of "root" here differs from how that term is usually used in the
>> context of GC. In particular, while GC-roots are Access-roots, not all
>> Access-roots are GC-roots. This is a frequent source of confusion.
> Yes.
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> It appears that this is long because you pasted it in twice (or is the second version different. I hope not because I didn't find the difference).

Ack!  Sorry about that.  I’ll see if there are any differences and send an update with the proper version if needed.



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