I forwarded the issue to Guy again recently. No reply as yet. He’s a busy dude. Do we have any alternates?
📱 > On Oct 5, 2021, at 10:58 AM, Andrew Haley <aph-o...@littlepinkcloud.com> > wrote: > > On 9/28/21 10:30, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: >> I was pondering whether to propose adding a launch-time option on the >> command line to choose between the current and the proposed implementation >> for some time, so to help the community gaining confidence in the new >> algorithm and still have the current one as a fallback, just in case. >> (AFAIU, a launch-time option can be constant folded by the JIT compiler to >> help it eliminate dead code, right?) >> >> On the one hand, this adds complexity. On the other hand, it could help >> revive this dormant PR. >> >> What do you think? Would this be a viable option? > > It's a good-enough idea in theory, but I don't think it'd be accepted. > > Pinging Joe Darcy: do you (or any of your friends) have a good way > to contact Guy Steele? > > -- > Andrew Haley (he/him) > Java Platform Lead Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> > https://keybase.io/andrewhaley > EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
