Apologies for the cross post, but I wasn't sure of the best place the ask the following question.
Now that @Contended is implemented is there any chance that it will be applied to AtomicLong or an alternative "PaddedAtomicLong" be provided in JDK8? I'd be happy to submit a patch if that is what would be required to get this implemented. My personal interest in this is that I could drop a whole bunch of code that currently uses the Unsafe and replace it with this class. Regards, Michael Barker.
