Re: Possible that abcl-2.0.0 will not support openjdk8

I use ABCL on Java 8 in https://arahant.com/ and https://kissweb.org/

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:57 AM Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:

> A question for all Bear fans:  would you be severly impacted if abcl-2.0.0
> dropped support for openjdk8, just supporting openjdk11 and up?
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> In order to realistically get ABCL to implement Compare and Swap at all
> efficiently, I think we need to require that the JVM memory access model
> conforms to the fixes identified by Doug Lea et. al. as codified in the
> [VarHandle interface first introduced in openjdk9][varhandle].
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> abcl-1.8.0 would be the last release supporting openjdk8.  Comments with
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> policy?  Please yell early if you absolutely could not migrate an existing
> use
> of ABCL to openjdk11.
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> [cas]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/issues/92
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> [varhandle]:
> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/invoke/VarHandle.html
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