Status 2022-03-02

[Andrew Dinn]

Oops! Apologies for sending a message intended for the Red Hat Java team 
to the jdk-dev list . . .

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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On 03/03/2022 16:40, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 03/03/2022 16:01, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
> [n.b. including the whole java team in cc]
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 4:44 PM Foivos Zakkak <fzakkak at redhat.com 
>> <mailto:fzakkak at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         - New tutorial about working with Random/SplittableRandom
>>         instances in native mages. Candidate for RH dev blog:
>>         
>> https://foivos.zakkak.net/tutorials/working-with-randoms-native-images/
>>         
>> <https://foivos.zakkak.net/tutorials/working-with-randoms-native-images/>
>>
>> I read it today. Great work!
>>
>> To add it to the RH dev blog, I'd rework it around Quarkus, rather 
>> than native-image. This is the kind of feedback I'd expect from 
>> Thomas, who's always interested in promoting Quarkus. A nice effect of 
>> tailoring it for Quarkus is that you'd get to the issue quicker 
>> (making the post smaller) because classes are build time init by default.
> It is indeed a great blog post. However, to me that is not really 
> because it is a useful HOWTO (for which top marks) but because it serves 
> as an indictment of the state of build time initialization in native 
> Java. It is dire that developers end up having to apply one or other of 
> the remedies Foivos recommends. Native Java still has a very long way to 
> go.
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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