On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:25:52 GMT, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jwilh...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

> UseNewLocks... Surely there must be a better name? For how long will these be 
> the new locks? Do we rename the flag to UseOldLocks when the next locking 
> scheme comes along? There must be some property that differentiates these 
> locks from the older locks other than being new. Why not name the flag after 
> that property?

The main difference is that this new approach doesn't overload the object 
header with a stack-pointer in a racy way. UseNonRacyLocking?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10907#issuecomment-1481450601

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