Thanks, John. I need to adjust my expectations. The word "constant" means something different to hotspot engineers.
I'm still hoping to someday simply say, "here's a final field - just go ahead and trust that it's truly final" On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:38 PM, John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > The docs for @Stable don't spell this out as clearly as one > might want, but this sentence comes closest: "More specifically, > the HotSpot VM will process non-null stable fields (final or > otherwise) in a similar manner to static final fields with respect to > promoting the field's value to a constant." >
