On 05/12/2012 11:59, David Holmes wrote:
Java 7 introduced support for parallel classloading by adding to each
class loader a ConcurrentHashMap, referenced through a new field,
parallelLockMap. This contains a mapping from class names to Objects
to use as a classloading lock for that class name. This scheme has a
number of inefficiencies. To address this we propose for Java 8 the
notion of a fully concurrent classloader ...
This is a fairly simple proposal that I've written up as a blog entry:
https://blogs.oracle.com/dholmes/entry/parallel_classloading_revisited_fully_concurrent
The jdk7 implementation is very unfortunate, it's a pity this wasn't
caught before 7 shipped.
I think the proposal is good, it preserves compatibility, and if there
are loaders calling registerAsParallelCapable now (probably very few)
then it they may be able to change to using registerAsFullyConcurrent
without too much work.
I am tempted to suggest that registerAsParallelCapable should be
deprecated too.
-Alan.
