[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8296417: Make memory session a pure lifetime abstraction [v8]

[Paul Sandoz]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 14:01:29 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Add description
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> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/lang/foreign/StrLenTest.java
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>   Co-authored-by: Jorn Vernee <JornVernee at users.noreply.github.com>

We are using "Arena" to generally convey "a particular area of activity" related to memory management e.g. the activities of 1) allocation of segments associated with the arena's session; and 2) deallocation of all allocated segments, within the area of the try-with-resources body.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/750