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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);">
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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" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" 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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