JEP proposed to target JDK 11: 318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector

[Andrew Dinn]

On 18/01/18 10:10, Erik Österlund wrote:
> I do not feel too comfortable with this being a product flag regardless
> of the name. There is existing code that assumes that for example
> System.gc() will actually do something. Similar for assumptions that
> language features like finalizers and reference objects and queues will
> do anything at all. That makes me feel uncomfortable. Do you feel
> comfortable with exposing a product flag that breaks code relying on
> those features?

Honestly, if we are at the point where we need to cater for those who
pass in -XX:+UseNoGC and still expect "System.gc() will actually do
something" the I believe all hope for civilization is a faint and
distant pipe dream.

Have we not bike-shedded this JEP enough already?


regards,


Andrew Dinn
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