On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:13:09 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Another small step in the multi-release/multi-year effort to remove cruft >> from Thread/ThreadGroup. >> >> java.lang.ThreadGroup.allowThreadSuspension(boolean) dates from JDK 1.1 and >> the Classic VM. The method controlled whether threads were suspended when >> the GC failed. It appears to have interacted with a callback mechanism that >> could potentially free memory, allowing the GC to retry. The method was >> never specified . >> >> The method was deprecated and changed to do nothing in JDK 1.2. It was >> deprecated for removal in Java 14. >> >> A corpus analysis of 30M classes in 130k artifacts found 0 usages of this >> method. >> >> It is time to finally remove this method. The compatibility impact should be >> negligible. Joe, Stuart and I discussed briefly and think early in JDK 21 is >> a good time to do this. > >> Joe, Stuart and I discussed briefly and think early in JDK 21 is a good time >> to do this. > > I guess, this would then mean this PR will be integrated into mainline after > 8th December when the branch for JDK 20 will be forked > https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/20/#Schedule? @jaikiran wrote: > I guess, this would then mean this PR will be integrated into mainline after > 8th December when the branch for JDK 20 will be forked Yes, I'm sure this will go in soon after the JDK 20 fork. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11373
