On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:07:19 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Just a code cleanup to reduce the amount of code we need to care about, test, 
> and support.
> 
> The class sun.java2d.Disposer can use either weak or phantom references. For 
> many years it has used phantom references by default.
> 
> One reason why weak references were supported is because phantom references 
> keep a strong reference to the object until the reference is added to the 
> reference queue and cleared. This behavior changed after the fix for 
> [JDK-8071507](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8071507). Now both weak and 
> phantom references behave the same way when it comes to clearing the 
> reference to the object.

Marked as reviewed by aivanov (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26394#pullrequestreview-3039641594

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