> 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.