<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello,<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Are you aware of the lazy static final fields proposal ?<br></div><div> <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8209964">https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8209964</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>In think both proposals should be merged.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Rémi<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Per-Ake Minborg" <per-ake.minborg@oracle.com><br><b>To: </b>"leyden-dev" <leyden-dev@openjdk.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 27, 2023 5:52:46 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Draft JEP Announcement: "Computed Constants"<br></blockquote></div><div><style style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Maurizio and I have drafted a JEP for computed constants, which are</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> immutable value holders that are initialized at most once. They offer</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the performance and safety benefits of final fields while offering</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> greater flexibility as to the timing of initialization. In the</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> context of Leyden, they could be one basis for shifting computation</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> both forward and backward in time.</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The draft is here:<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.org/jeps/8312611" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://openjdk.org/jeps/8312611</a><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Now that the Leyden repo is open, I’ll publish the prototype code to a</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> new branch there shortly.</span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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