RFA 8056248: Improve ForkJoin thread throttling

[Paul Sandoz]

On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 05/09/2014 11:31, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> :
>> I am saying i could pull the *specification* of the property, as per the little patch in the original email (it would still implemented for ease of backporting any future updates).
>> 
>> If we make it implementation specific, as Alan suggests, then perhaps it may need to be renamed?
>> 
>> My preference is to pull the specification (it's extremely rare that this property will be used anyway).
>> 
> I don't think the rename is strictly required as there are other examples of other java.* properties that aren't in the specification. java.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort is one that comes to mind, there are others.
> 
> Clearly it would be nicer to have JDK-specific properties be jdk.* but changing this one would be annoyance when migrating from from 8u to 9.
> 

Ok, i am fine with making it part of the @implNote. Alas, there is more manual labour involved (new explicit backport issue and CCC) :-(

Paul.