I'm always impressed with the clarity of Java's design/implementation discussions, which I think is due to Mark Reinhold's leadership since 1997 (a breathtaking

I'm always impressed with the clarity of Java's design/implementation discussions, which I think is due to Mark Reinhold's leadership since 1997 (a breathtaking tenure in its own right). But this needs to replace stack locking with an alternate lightweight locking scheme, to avoid races. Unfortunately, that is opaque: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8291555 Does anyone have other pointers for the design or viability of the required alternative?