New Early Access builds

[August Nagro]

Thanks Alan looking forward to trying it.

Has there been any interest in adding back continuations?

They can already be implemented with a virtual thread + lock, but having
more efficient access be ideal. Also, it's not always desired to suspend on
every blocking operation.

Some use cases would be
- Actor Frameworks
- Async/Await in existing, non blocking code
- Generators

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 11:33 AM Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> The builds at the Project Loom Early Access page [1] have been
> refreshed. The latest builds are based on jdk-19+16.
>
> There aren't any API changes compared to the previous build. There are a
> lot of changes under hood and in particular, there are many changes in
> the GC and runtime areas with several important fixes. The build
> includes the update of ForkJoinPool that Doug Lea announced on the
> concurrency-interest list recently - this update improves the
> performance in cases such as message passing.
>
> -Alan
>
> [1] https://jdk.java.net/loom/
>