Hi Paul, multi-release jars are not well supported by the ecosystem yet, eclipse and idea do not support it well, junit do not support it (all tools that does annotations scanning in fact), maven do not support it well, proguards do not support it, etc
Rémi > De: "Paul King" <pa...@asert.com.au> > À: "dev" <dev@groovy.apache.org> > Envoyé: Samedi 14 Octobre 2017 02:52:30 > Objet: Re: Removing our use of sun.misc.Unsafe > We could use a multi-release jar to still provide a faster option for pre jdk9 > users but avoiding that added complexity would also be a good thing. > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:28 AM, John Wagenleitner < [ > mailto:john.wagenleit...@gmail.com | john.wagenleit...@gmail.com ] > wrote: >> I would be in favor of removing Unsafe from the groovy-json subproject which >> I >> think is the only place where it's used. I had planned to propose this to the >> dev list but never got around to it. With compat strings in Java 9 I believe >> it >> will no longer be a viable optimization (at least not without quite a bit of >> effort) and while there may be some performance (or memory) impact for those >> using Java 7/8 I suspect it wont be that noticeable for most all workloads. >> I not sure var handles will help much given the work that would be needed to >> decode the new byte array that String uses in 9. I definitely think offset >> can >> be removed since now we are Java 6 minimum, though I would propose Unsafe be >> removed altogether from 2.5 onwards. >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Paul King < [ mailto:pa...@asert.com.au | >> pa...@asert.com.au ] > wrote: >>> I was going to try to progress removing Unsafe but I am a little unsure >>> where >>> others might have gotten up to in previous investigations. So, I have a >>> bunch >>> of questions in case others have some answers/ideas. >>> Does anyone know whether variable handles might work for us? Inside some >>> kind of >>> jdk9 plugin I guess? >>> Has anyone looked into how we might package up our unsafe usage in such a >>> way >>> that it could be used in pre-jdk9 environments where var handles aren't >>> available but not result in errors/warnings in jdk9? >>> What tests were being run to ensure that performance wasn't lost? >>> Can we remove the OFFSET enum in FastStringUtils described as applicable for >>> JDK4/5? >>> Cheers, Paul.
