On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:15:46 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@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. > > Alan Bateman has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a > merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes > brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional > commits since the last revision: > > - Merge > - Merge > - Remove allowThreadSuspension Still looks good. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11373
