JEP proposed to target JDK 11: 318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector

[Andrew Haley]

On 18/01/18 10:10, Erik Österlund wrote:
> I do not feel too comfortable with this being a product flag regardless 
> of the name. There is existing code that assumes that for example 
> System.gc() will actually do something. Similar for assumptions that 
> language features like finalizers and reference objects and queues will 
> do anything at all.

Anybody who relies on finalizers and reference objects and queues to
do anything in bounded time is already assuming something not in the
spec.  They are already lost; Epsilon will reveal to them the depths
of their error.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
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