2015/11/23 8:38 -0800, paul.san...@oracle.com: > Please review the addition of Reference.reachabilityFence contributed > by Aleksey, Doug and myself: > > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8133348-reachability-fence-jdk/webrev/ > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8133348-reachability-fence-hotspot/webrev/
This seems eminently reasonable, but why does it belong in the java.lang.ref.Reference class? It has nothing (directly) to do with reference objects. java.lang.Runtime, perhaps? - Mark