RFR: 8265753: Remove manual JavaThread transitions to blocked [v3]

[Robbin Ehn]

On Wed, 12 May 2021 08:27:33 GMT, Richard Reingruber <rrich at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi Robbin,
> 
> I haven't found the time for a proper review yet but I've experimented a little bit with lambdas. I could not make it work because g++ created references to ::new which isn't allowed.
> 
> Thanks, Richard.

Hi Richard,
I tested lamdba, which is just a fancy way to write a crazy typed functor, we need to capture the lamdba so we can run it in the destructor. AFAICT the way to do that is using std::function.
 
Regarding ThreadClosure, we could use it, maybe that is preferable?!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3875