On Wed, 25 May 2022 16:11:52 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> If virtual threads become permanent then the usage message would minimally >> be updated to drop the sentence that virtual threads are a preview feature. >> At that point the debugger APIs may have been built out further and it might >> be that there is no need for the -trackvthreads option but that's too far >> out to know at this point. >> >> If virtual threads were to be removed then the -trackvthreads command line >> option would be removed too. > >> If virtual threads become permanent then the usage message would minimally >> be updated to drop the sentence that virtual threads are a preview feature. > > But that's precisely the commitment to this flag that I want to avoid. I > want something that is the equivalent of `EXPERIMENTAL` for `-XX` flags. Again I have to say I agree with Chris. The flag itself is a "preview" flag and relates to a "preview feature". If the feature goes obviously the flag does too, but the flag could go even if the feature stays. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8780
