JEP 193: Enhanced Volatiles (original) (raw)

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Wed Mar 5 16:50:44 UTC 2014

Why not go for something far less intrusive then?

I'm all for unintrusive. Though note that the intrusiveness metric on language features I(f) is not uniform across observers :)

Here's my straw man proposal:

Add an annotation that can be placed on native methods to synthesize atomic accessor methods.

I suspect you were expecting this response: we don't add language semantics through annotations.

I'm not trying to frustrate you; evolving a language with millions of users is really, really hard. And one of the things that makes it hard is recognizing our intrinsic conflicts of interest between "what good will this do me" and "what harm will it do others."

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