RFR [9] 8140687: Move @Contended to the jdk.internal.vm.annotation package

[Doug Lea]

On 11/12/2015 08:23 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don’t think anyone disagrees on the usefulness of @Contended.
>
> Beyond the JDK and 166 are there any more usages out there in the wild?
>

My take after browsing through some of these external libraries is that
most people still use non-portable (but usually effective on common
platforms) manual padding hacks. I imagine that they do this so that
the code does not break on pre-jdk8. Given how this is turning out,
they will have no motivation to change what they do until jdk10 or so.
Sigh.

-Doug