VarHandles & LMAX Disruptor

[Paul Sandoz]

On 29 Jul 2015, at 12:19, Kirk Pepperdine <kirk.pepperdine at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I am marginally in favour of the keeping the default accessors. FWIW they have parity with method handle field setters/getters (and of course get/putfield).
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>>> Vitaly, i think it’s ok to experiment. We can easily remove the default accessors if we eventually conclude these are more of a nuisance.
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>> Not sure I agree, it feels a bit like API smell to have both versions. but yeah they can be removed at any point in time.
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> Without a backward compatibility issues?

We are talking in the context of pre-Java 9 integration. The API should be locked down once we integrate.

Paul.

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> At any rate, I always vote for readability so this is a welcome change. FWIW, there is quite a bit of JDK code that would not pass our internal code reviews based on this point.
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> Regards,
> Kirk
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