Re: request for advice: safepoints in the JSR 292 spec

2010-12-10 Thread John Rose
On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Doug Lea wrote: > On 12/09/10 19:09, John Rose wrote: >> I started a thread on Google Groups to get more advice on safepoint-based >> invalidation, which the EG is naming MutableCallSite#sync. >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_thread/thread/9c9

Re: request for advice: safepoints in the JSR 292 spec

2010-12-10 Thread Brian Goetz
> However, someday, it would be great to be able > to allow use the same mechanics in each. As parallelism > becomes more widespread, we must make it easiest and > most attractive for people to use simpler constrained > execution control patterns like phasers and FJ rather than the > ad-hoc unstruc

Re: request for advice: safepoints in the JSR 292 spec

2010-12-10 Thread Doug Lea
On 12/09/10 19:09, John Rose wrote: > I started a thread on Google Groups to get more advice on safepoint-based > invalidation, which the EG is naming MutableCallSite#sync. > > http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_thread/thread/9c9d3e84fc745676# > TL;DR version: The scheme you laid