> On Jan 27, 2016, at 9:41 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > > HI Ivan, > > On 27/01/2016 11:31 PM, Ivan Krylov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Earlier there was a discussion on this mail alias about the spin loop >> hint proposal [1]. Based on the feedback from that discussion some >> changes were incorporated and the JEP has been filed [2]. There seems to >> be a consensus on the API side. The JEP is now in a draft state and I >> hope this JEP will get targeted for java 9 shortly. > > The discussion in [1] continued in: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-December/037063.html > > but ended abruptly. In particular Mark's query as to why this moved from > Thread to Runtime was seemingly left unanswered.
The thread continued, but it looks like due to cross-posting with concurrency-interest and people replying on the thread dropping the cores-libs-dev recipient somehow. See continuations of the thread here: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2015-December/thread.html#14576 and here: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2015-December/thread.html#14580 Mark's question on why this was moved from Thread to Runtime is discussed in detail there. An easy summary in a single message body can be found here: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2015-December/014587.html . Also, Doug addressed questions about the brief/bland wording choice ("typically improve performance", which we then switched to "The runtime may may take action to improve the performance" at Brian's suggestion) here: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2015-December/014578.html HTH. > > Thanks, > David > >> Please review the upcoming API changes: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ikrylov/8147844.jdk.00/ >> >> For the reference, the new generated JavaDoc for j.l.Runtime class and >> the new method >> http://ivankrylov.github.io/onspinwait/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#onSpinWait-- >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ivan >> >> 1 - >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-October/thread.html#35613 >> >> 2 - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147832.
