We've explored this in the past. Unfortunately it doesn't help, as it
can observably change the behavior exhibited by code executed by such a
thread.
On 2026-01-11 12:12, Michal Domagala wrote:
Maybe a good idea would be `Thread.ofEphemeral()` ? Effort on JVM side
is minimal , because each non-tracked VT is ephemeral, everyone who
want experiment with ephemeral has an option, no one will comply about
semaphores, summoned demons, etc. because who consents cannot be injured
sob., 10 sty 2026 o 18:18 Alan Bateman <[email protected]>
napisał(a):
On 10/01/2026 16:00, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
You can summon other demons
when the threads act on objects with cleaners (or more generally,
anything with cleanup actions based on phantom refs). This can
lead to
cleaning actions that attempt to release resources in an inconsistent
state. Even if we spent a few years on the issues, the usage (to
allow
the alive threads be GC'ed) is very fragile to setup, and the
resulting
behavior would surely be surprising to most developers
--
Cheers,
√
Viktor Klang
Software Architect, Java Platform Group
Oracle
