RFR: 8291714: Implement a Multi-Reader Single-Writer mutex for Hotspot

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:51:57 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> For what it's worth, C++ Standard Library uses "mutex" to refer to an object that gets locked, and uses "lock" to refer to an RAII object that locks a "mutex".

So their "lock" would be our MutexLocker? The far more dominant terminology is that a mutex is a lock.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9838