New Candidate JEP: 454: Foreign Function & Memory API

[Iris Clark]

The following JEP with scope "SE" has been moved to the Candidate state:

  454: Foreign Function & Memory API
  https://openjdk.org/jeps/454

    Summary: Introduce an API by which Java programs can interoperate with
    code and data outside of the Java runtime. By efficiently invoking
    foreign functions (i.e., code outside the JVM), and by safely accessing
    foreign memory (i.e., memory not managed by the JVM), the API enables
    Java programs to call native libraries and process native data without
    the brittleness and danger of JNI.

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Thanks,
Iris