Hi John,
In my blog entry this week I will present our current offering and its
performance characteristics. But this is not driven exclusively by
performance though it is a big factor. I want to make it extremely easy
for counters (longs which cannot be decremented only incremented) to be
An interesting post stolen from the Doug Lea's concurrency mailing list.
Having this kind of counter can be really great for those that
want to do profiling without having an interpreter
Groovy, Nashorn, ...
Basically, this kind of counter already exist in the VM,
is there a way to bubble them