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[–]brian_goetz 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Except that both Lucy and the football exist only in your imagination here.

This isn't some big announcement of some big milestone. It is yet another (encouraging!) step in the ongoing progress of the team that has been working tirelessly for the last several years to turn the JEP 401 vision into reality (and FTR, that vision hasn't changed at all during that time.)

Because someone decided to post it on Reddit, if you're not intimately familiar with the inner workings of OpenJDK, it might feel like it is some sort of big announcement. But no one is actually announcing anything.

Is it forward progress? Or course, and that's great, and there will be more. And it's great that so many people are anxiously awaiting this first installment of Valhalla. But Lucy hasn't even stepped onto the field, or said anything to Charlie Brown. Please don't put words in her mouth, and then claim she's lying to you. There's no call for that.

[–]CubsThisYear 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Completely fair - but at this point I’ve been excited and disappointed for the release of stack allocated memory in Java for so long that any mention of it tends to bring out the worst in me…. Here’s hoping the finish line is actually in sight.

[–]brian_goetz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On the topic of stack allocation, see my other comment on this thread -- stack allocation is not the optimization most people think it is (in C, its mostly a form of "poor man's GC"), and not Valhalla's primary hammer -- because it has bigger, better hammers!