David Holmes

So effectively this just introduces an alternate tty device for pre-init and post-shutdown. But if the tty is not stdout then you are now forcing use of stdout in an...

> I don't force using stdout. I prevent the VM from crashing. Yes by forcing the use of stdout. There are users who go to great lengths to ensure nothing...

> The goal should be to replace tty with UL UL has the same problems. UL is configured by argument parsing, so prior to that you can't log. And at...

> I only chose stdout to keep with the standard behavior of VM output. And therein lies the problem of using stderr. How is this going to work with the...

Hi Thomas, Yes this is consuming too much of our time - sorry about that but this does need to be aired. The compatibility issue is not "crash versus no...

Hi Thomas, I think for pre-init we would look at adding an env var (which would require a CSR request) when we actually have some logging we want to add....

Shouldn't we throw a SkippedException in this case?

The bar for acceptance for a brand new locking scheme with no fallback is extremely high and needs a lot of bake time and broad performance measurements, to watch for...

I am not aware, please refresh my memory if you know different, of any core hotspot subsystem just being replaced in one fell swoop in one single release. Yes this...

Any fast locking scheme benefits the uncontended sync case. So if you have a lot of contention and therefore a lot of inflation, the fast locking won't show any benefit....