Timeline for BiasedLocking removal?

Roman Kennke rkennke at redhat.com
Tue May 11 20:53:29 UTC 2021


>> Good. Does obsoletion mean it can be removed altogether?
>>
>> If nobody's signed up for it yet, I could also handle the actual removal.
> Yes, obsolete allows code associated with the flag to be removed from 
> the codebase 
> (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/Hotspot+Command-line+Flags%3A+Kinds%2C+Lifecycle+and+the+CSR+Process). 
> 
> I plan to remove the code in JDK18 as discussed in 8256253 (I thought I 
> was already assigned in the bug).

Great!
I will assume in Lilliput that I don't need to worry about BL then, and 
disable it altogether until you remove it:

https://github.com/openjdk/lilliput/pull/4

Thanks,
Roman



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