> Doug Lea wants the HotSpot work for JSR-166 to not fall off our radar.
> JSR-166 is NOT the New Memory Model, that's already come to pass.
> JSR-166 is bunch of things that build on the New MM to allow highly
> concurrent abstract data types. He needs a reference implementation
> to get the changes approved and "we're it".
>
> In particular he needs:
> (4) Create currentTimeNano's, same as currentTimeMilli's. There's a
> high res timer in T2 and he'd like access to it. Yes, the semantics
> of the call clearly state that many implementations will fall back
> to milli resolution or worse.