On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:42 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin, > > 8200123: Replace Thread.init with telescoping constructor >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/jdk/Thread-init/ >> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200123 >> > > Looks fine - for some reason I thought we had a direct VM call to init() > but we don't. > > What is the effect of @stable? I'm just thinking about any possible impact > on initialization order. > @Stable final just means the VM can really truly assume the value will only ever change from the default value once. Like a per-field -XX:+TrustFinalNonStaticFields http://www.progdoc.de/papers/JET2015/How_final_is_final.pdf http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/b6671a111395/src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/vm/annotation/Stable.java
