Hi, Peter Levart discussed a prototype for Ephemerons a year ago:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-January/038094.html Florent On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is kind of a feature request... What I would like to have is a new > Reference variant that allows me to keep an instance alive for as long as > the class of the object is alive, without the instance keeping the class > alive. > > In the end I would like to be able to store values, but don´t keep the > classes involved from being garbage collected. I am especially thinking > here about a combination of ClassValue and this Ephemeron (?) that allows > me to cache values on classes, without preventing class unloading. > > Is there any chance for this making its way into the JVM? What would > prevent this? > > bye Jochen > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev > -- [image: Nuxeo] Florent Guillaume – Director of R&D Twitter @efge +33 1 40 33 79 87 nuxeo.com <https://www.nuxeo.com/> *HYPERSCALE DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT* UNLOCK THE FULL VALUE OF YOUR DIGITAL ASSETS
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