New candidate JEP: 429: Extent-Local Variables (Incubator)

[Zheka Kozlov]

Just out of curiosity: why was a static where() method chosen? An instance
method seems more natural:

PRINCIPAL.where(principal).run(...)
vs.
ExtentLocal.where(PRINCIPAL, principal).run()

Also, a couple of notes regarding Javadoc:

   1. Two methods runWithBinding() and callWithBinding() are mentioned in
   the description. But ExtentLocal doesn't have such methods. It only has
   three overloads of where().
   2. The code example doesn't use a code snippet. It uses the old HTML
   formatting.


On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 6:18 AM <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> https://openjdk.org/jeps/429
>
>   Summary: Introduce extent-local variables, which enable the sharing
>   of immutable data within and across threads. They are preferred to
>   thread-local variables, especially when using large numbers of virtual
>   threads. This is an incubating API.
>
> - Mark
>
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