Thanks Remi.
I’d like to separate this discussion into two components: implementation and
API. Let’s talk about API first. We did give a fair amount of thought to the
sigpoly-vs-typesafe API question.
VarHandles allow you to abstract data access over several dimensions:
- location kind: st
Question: is JEP 169 still under active development or has it been
merged into the more general "Value types for Java" proposal below?
It has been merged into the more general Value Types for Java proposal.
The "Value types for Java" approach clearly seems to be the most
general but also the m
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> My understanding is that lambdas are currently a separate hg forest
> (to allow the lambdas team to go faster), and that the team will be
> bringing code across from lambdas into jdk8 mainline, and then
> rebaselining.
>
> So it may not be possible to build a combined jdk8 + lambdas at the
> mom
> 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
