Hi Peter, Most of the discussion is in: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6399443. The linked issue in that report then links to the CI mail thread.
Jason >I'm trying to understand the purpose of finalize() in TPE, but can't. >I'm surely missing something. If the pool is no longer referenced AND >there are no active threads, what is there left to shutdown() actually? >All that remains is garbage that will eventually be GCed. >Regards, Peter