Re: First candidate for 2.8.0 beta

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 14:27, martin odersky wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Kevin Wright
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Stepan Koltsov
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 14:02, Kevin Wright
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Stepan Koltsov
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Why have separate distribution for JDK5?
>>>>
> As far as I recall the main reason is that JDK 6 has better fork join
> libraries for high-performance concurrency.

Isn't it possible to switch implementation (using JDK5 primitives or
JDK6 fork-join) in runtime?

S.