I'm sure I recall an email from the past few months which proposed that
*FieldUpdater are still going to be recommended in many cases over
VarHandle because the latter is probably too low-level for casual uses.
It was (IIRC) an argument in favor of more advanced fence methods or
something like that.
Am I imagining it?
On 10/04/2016 04:19 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
VarHandle is a reasonable replacement for FieldUpdaters, but it's not yet
complete (where is accumulateAndGet?), and when do you deprecate something
when the replacement won't be ubiquitous for 10 years?
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Remi Forax <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
Given that Java 9 introduces a faster way to emit things like
compareAndSet by using the VarHandke API and that AtomiReference (and
likes) are now rewritten to use VarHandles directly,
i think it's time to deprecate all *FieldUpdater with something saying
that they have been superseded by the VarHandle API.
Rémi
substitute dr deprecator
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