WITHDRAWN Re: RFR: JDK-8005845 (JEP 149) Fully Concurrent ClassLoading - VM Changes

[David Holmes]

The Fully Concurrent Classloader work is not proceeding in Java 8 due to 
additional specification work being needed for the VM (JVMS) and further 
investigation of the parallel define-class capability.

I hope to resurrect this for Java 9.

Thanks for the reviews.

David

On 8/01/2013 8:11 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> As described here:
>
> https://blogs.oracle.com/dholmes/entry/parallel_classloading_revisited_fully_concurrent
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>
> and discussed here:
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> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-December/012658.html
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> FullyConcurrent classloaders allow for parallel-defineClass to occur.
> These are the VM changes to support that:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8005845/webrev/
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> Quite simply we allow access to the fullyConcurrent field in
> java.lang.ClassLoader and if it is fullyConcurrent then we allow a
> parallel-defineClass to occur.
>
> In a JDK without the ClassLoader change this is all a no-op.
>
> Thanks,
> David