Spin Loop Hint support: Draft JEP proposal

[Jean Philippe Bempel]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Sure.  I would have thought, though, that java.util.concurrent was a
> natural home for this.  Is there any kind of userland spinlock which
> is not about concurrency?
>
> Andrew.
>

Spinning is not always for a spinlock. Most of the time is a lightweight &
userland only wait/notify implementation.
Or park/unpark equivalent which tends to fit into LockSupport like Paul
Sandoz suggests.

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