New Early Access builds

[Mark Raynsford]

On 2020-06-29T07:50:07 +0100
Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> There are a couple of API tweaks and renames. The "Getting started" [2] 
> has been updated so it is aligned with the current APIs.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> [1] http://jdk.java.net/loom/
> [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Getting+started

Small question, as I'm a little uncertain:

What is the correct way to say "Start a set of N virtual threads that
all execute on the current carrier thread"?

I have some code where I'd like:

1. A non-virtual thread T to start a set S of virtual threads to perform
   various I/O operations...
2. Have T wait for the virtual threads to complete... 
3. Then have T continue on its way afterwards, without at any point
   having to deal with synchronization (as it would if the threads in
   S were non-virtual, or were scheduled on different carrier threads).

Is there actually something in the API currently to do this? It seems
like all of the executors use a ForkJoin pool. I could write an
executor myself, but it's not clear if I actually have to.

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