VarHandle prototype pushed

Paul Benedict pbenedict at apache.org
Fri Aug 8 15:18:32 UTC 2014


Is the VarHandle prototype the favored solution at this point? Is Doug's
volatile proposal no longer favored?


Cheers,
Paul


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just pushed the VarHandle prototype. More details can be found here:
>
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/varhandles/VarHandle-0.1.md
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/varhandles/jvmls14-varHandles.pdf
>
> Hopefully it won't cause too much disturbance in the "force", but if
> anyone pulled in-between my pushes to jdk, langtools and hotspot then one
> will need pull again so everything is in sync. Also, it is unlikely to step
> on the value type/specialization area as the changes to langtools/hotspot
> are focused on areas particular to polymorphic signature methods.
>
> This prototype is sufficient to play around with the API, validate
> performance and find issues, but it's still very much work in progress.
>
> I have yet to push a patch to update certain j.u.c classes to replace
> Unsafe with VarHandle [1]. I am pondering whether to have separate renamed
> classes, which is nice for a side-to-side comparison in the same code base,
> but would force test code (e.g. 166 loops tests) to be updated.
>
> Paul.
>
> [1]
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/varhandles/jdk-varhandle-juc.patch/webrev/


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