On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> wrote:
> 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" > In retrospect, I think this wording in the docs raised my expectations: """a final stable field is treated as if it is really final from both the Java language and the HotSpot VM.""" > > 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." >> >
