Ephemeral threads

[Michal Domagala]

Maybe a good idea would be `Thread.ofEphemeral()` ? Effort on JVM side is
minimal , because each non-tracked VT is ephemeral, everyone who want
experiment with ephemeral has an option, no one will comply about
semaphores, summoned demons, etc. because who consents cannot be injured

sob., 10 sty 2026 o 18:18 Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> napisał(a):

> On 10/01/2026 16:00, Andrew Haley wrote:
> >
> You can summon other demons
> when the threads act on objects with cleaners (or more generally,
> anything with cleanup actions based on phantom refs). This can lead to
> cleaning actions that attempt to release resources in an inconsistent
> state. Even if we spent a few years on the issues, the usage (to allow
> the alive threads be GC'ed) is very fragile to setup, and the resulting
> behavior would surely be surprising to most developers
>
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