Received on the -comments list (some time ago).
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Migrating the primitive boxes to values Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:07:53 -0800 From: Jack Ammo <jackamm...@gmail.com> To: valhalla-spec-comme...@openjdk.java.net From an outsider's perspective, i'd like to ask a perhaps naive question about the locking issue on values. Instead of just opting to break existing code as you seem to be worried about, why not just box the value before locking? Assuming that a boxing conversion to a full fledged Object is still kicking around as a fall back, this seems like the most familiar option to me as a developer: i can technically do the lock on an Integer but it is not advised and results are not guaranteed. I understand that everyone has worked hard to avoid the cost of boxing, but in this particular case it seems like a decent option that is the least difficult to wrap my mind around. Locking requires a full Object, so values (like an int) need to be boxed as such.
