Re: com.apple.concurrent.Dispatch in the modular JDK

2015-05-19 Thread Andrew Thompson
A few years ago I had a brief email exchange with Doug Lea I the idea of providing an SPI so platforms could plug in implementations for a "default" ExecutorService. The idea was this could be a regular fixed thread pool or something more exotic like libdispatch, which is, after all OS managed a

Re: com.apple.concurrent.Dispatch in the modular JDK

2015-05-19 Thread Kustaa Nyholm
On 20/05/2015 03:28, "Michael Hall" wrote: >Me? Don¹t remember ever hearing of it and it won¹t matter at all. > > Likewise here. This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the s

Re: com.apple.concurrent.Dispatch in the modular JDK

2015-05-19 Thread Michael Hall
> On May 19, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Phil Race wrote: > > Apple's JDK 6 provided the non-standard "com.apple.concurrent.Dispatch" class > which was a means for Java code to access Apple's "libdispatch". > To quote the documentation at > http://www.coderanch.com/how-to/javadoc/appledoc/api/com/apple/con

com.apple.concurrent.Dispatch in the modular JDK

2015-05-19 Thread Phil Race
Apple's JDK 6 provided the non-standard "com.apple.concurrent.Dispatch" class which was a means for Java code to access Apple's "libdispatch". To quote the documentation at http://www.coderanch.com/how-to/javadoc/appledoc/api/com/apple/concurrent/Dispatch.html " Factory for |Executor|s and |Exec