API review of VarHandles

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/22/2016 11:15 AM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:

> I'm guessing opaque is compiler only fence because a method that a
> compiler doesn't inline (as an example) is considered "opaque" to
> the compiler and serves like a fence.  Perhaps that's how opaque
> ended up here.  At any rate, I think it's a poor name.

Humm.  I guess so, but I'm not sure why you'd want a compiler fence in
Java.  It's not like C where you can access memory-mapped I/O.  I
suppose it disallows roach-motel code motion.

Andrew.