On 04/12/2023 12:41, David Holmes wrote:
On 1/12/2023 2:08 pm, Alex Menkov wrote:
On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:11:08 GMT, Chris Plummer
<cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
I wasn't thinking in terms of the scheduler somehow no longer
references the virtual thread, but instead the program no longer
referencing the scheduler (and also not referencing the virtual
thread).
AFAIU unfinished unmounted virtual threads are referenced from other
objects (they are parked on), so they can't be unreachable even is
the application is not referencing them and the scheduler.
There is (or was - there may be a property that affects this:
trackAllThreads?) a scenario where a VT might park on a
synchronization object which is not referenced from any other thread.
The VT can never be unparked, and the sync object and the VT are
reachable only from either other and so both can be GC'd.
That's right, the door is not closed to introducing ephemeral threads in
the future. Right now, virtual threads created directly with the Thread
API remaining strongly reachable once started until they terminate.
Virtual threads created in other containers (e.g. a thread-per-task
ExecutorService) are kept reachable by the container.
-Alan
