Hi, Gentle reminder.
Paul. > On 10 Aug 2016, at 17:03, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Please review: > > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8162108-rename-weakCompareAndSetVolatile/webrev/ > > <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8162108-rename-weakCompareAndSetVolatile/webrev/> > > This is a refactoring to produce a consistent naming scheme for the VarHandle > Read Modify Write (RMW) methods. The unqualified methods default to volatile > access. > > (And i hope this is the last modifying to the API signatures) > > This touches 166 classes that use or refer to the weak plain/volatile methods. > > The plan is to follow up deprecating (*not* for removal) the > weakCompareAndSet methods on j.u.concurrent.atomic.* classes and add > weakCompareAndSetPlain methods. Analysis via grepcode shows very little > usages of the Atomic*.weakCompareAndSet methods. > > A further plan is to rename the Unsafe methods s/Swap/Set, add Plain > qualifier etc. > > Paul.
