<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I'd like to add that I care far, far less about "<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">efficiently [implement atomic memory compare and swap </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">operations</span>" than I do about bug fixes and ANSI CL conformance. And it still seems like a lot of work is remaining in those areas.<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Blake</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:33 AM Blake McBride <<a href="mailto:blake@mcbride.name">blake@mcbride.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:35 AM Mark Evenson <<a href="mailto:evenson@panix.com" target="_blank">evenson@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> ABCL 1.8.0<br>
<br>
Under the gathering storms of the Fall 2020, we are pleased to<br>
release ABCL 1.8.0 as the Ninth major revision of the<br>
implementation.<br>
<br>
This Ninth Edition of the implementation now supports building and<br>
running on the recently released openjdk15 platform. This release<br>
is intended as the last major release to support the openjdk6,<br>
openjdk7, and openjdk8 platforms, for with abcl-2.0.0 we intend to<br>
move the minimum platform to openjdk11 or better in order to<br>
efficiently [implement atomic memory compare and swap<br>
operations][github/issues/92].<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My company uses JDK8 and every company I've consulted with still uses JDK8. I have no plans to switch anytime soon and nor do any of the the companies I've consulted with as far as I know. Rather than forcing me to move from JDK8, your exclusion of JDK8 will simply cause me to stop upgrading ABCL. </div><div><br></div><div>According to Wikipedia, Oracle extended support of JDK8 ends in 2030. Support for JDK11 ends in 2026. Other companies like Azul plan to support JDK8 for many years to come.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it really critical for you to drop JDK8?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Blake McBride</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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