RFR: 8181085: Race condition in method resolution may produce spurious NullPointerException

[Andrew Haley]

On 27/05/17 03:44, Kim Barrett wrote:
> It might be worthwhile backporting the compile barriers to jdk8.

Certainly, IMO.  They're necessary for correctness.  Standard C++ now
treats all code with data races as undefined behaviour, and we've got
to get used to that.  The more we tell the C++ compiler about what we
want, the more it can optimize and the faster our JVMs will be.

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Andrew Haley
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