Re: GPars 1, 2, and 3

2017-03-16 Thread jim northrop
if you need more recent gpars documentation, i'm working on v2.0 of it that you can see here: http://gpars.aws.ie.a9sapp.eu the download page does show gpars 2.0 but it's just copies of 1.2.1 that i've renamed as placeholders. since jsr-166Y may be dropped there are a number of gpars features that

Re: GPars 1, 2, and 3

2017-03-16 Thread Jochen Theodorou
On 16.03.2017 22:54, Jochen Theodorou wrote: On 14.03.2017 12:06, Russel Winder wrote: [...] It might be worth thinking about whether GPars has a real future since so few people seem to be interested in actively working on it. With Quasar (Parallel Universe thing not Quasar Framework) there is a

Re: GPars 1, 2, and 3

2017-03-16 Thread Jochen Theodorou
On 14.03.2017 12:06, Russel Winder wrote: [...] I also note that JDK9 may have some features that require a rethink of some GPars implementation detail for a JDK and later specific GPars. cf. http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/j9mm.html yes, VarHandles are something to take a look at for sure.

GPars 1, 2, and 3

2017-03-14 Thread Russel Winder
Once JAXFinance and DevoxxUK are over I will (finally) be able to get back to progressing GPars 2.0 to releasability. I also have to release Gant to try and find out how to release via JCenter/Bintray/Artifactory, good knowledge for GPars. Something nearly got done in January but that effort fell a