Early Access Loom Builds

[Dávid Karnok]

Great!

Could you point me to the API docs of the relevant components (i.e., which
classes to look at) and any up-to-date basic usage examples?

Ron Pressler <ron.pressler at oracle.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. júl. 29.,
Hét 4:33):

> Early Access OpenJDK binaries that include Project Loom are now available
> for
> download (the download page has a link to the Javadoc). [1]
>
> The release of Early Access builds does not indicate anything about the
> project's readiness or status other than us wanting to solicit feedback
> from a
> wider set of users. The best way to help is to download the Early Access
> binaries, try Loom out, and report about your experience. Both the API as
> well
> as the implementation are still far from stable, and are expected to
> change very
> frequently.
>
> We are mostly interested in feedback on the following:
>
>
>  - Given current Loom limitations (such as held monitors pinning threads),
> how hard
>    is it to migrate existing code to work well with fibers?
>  - Structured concurrency: is it helpful? What can be improved?
>  - Which use cases are important to you, and are they well-served by Loom?
>
> Loom is ultimately a project that is intended to help with scalability and
> performance, and both speed and footprint are primary concerns for the
> project.
> But while we are *very* interested in your performance/footprint
> *requirements*
> and the kind of workloads you want Loom to help with, performance/footprint
> benchmarks are not helpful at this stage, as the implementation is far from
> stable and experiences frequent changes with possibly drastic impact to
> speed/footprint. First we make it work; then we make it fast.
>
> Bug reports are welcome. If you encounter a bug, please report it to this
> mailing list.
>
> Your feedback on the experience of using Loom will not only be
> appreciated, but
> will help us deliver Loom sooner.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ron
>
>
> [1] http://jdk.java.net/loom/
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