The real story behind the Java 7 GA bugs affecting Apache Lucene / Solr

http://blog.thetaphi.de/2011/07/real-story-behind-java-7-ga-bugs.html

by sshah • 15 years ago

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spullara• 15 years ago

I'm actually flabbergasted that neither the Lucene project nor Oracle tested and found this bug long ago. Java 7 builds have been available for years. Makes me wonder how many developers tried an early Java 7 build, got this error and then didn't report it because they assumed someone else was going to find it and report / fix it.

Update: Earlier report of this bug on June 20th: http://osdir.com/ml/solr-user.lucene.apache.org/2011-06/msg0... Another report of AggressiveOpts crashing PorterStemFilter in Jan: http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Java-6u23-an...

gojomo2• 15 years ago

If you see something, say something!

mgkimsal• 15 years ago

bug/issue reporting is a real pain, and possibly a good business opportunity for someone to fix. But as with many problems, it requires a network effect to have a lasting impact - you'll have a chicken/egg problem from day 1.

SeanLuke• 15 years ago

There are serious fifteen year old reported errors in java.util.Random which have never been fixed and have finally been declared WONTFIX. Ten years ago I reported that ArrayList's get(), set(), and add() methods were non-inlineable (!) and could be trivially repaired with a single line of code: this was never fixed until recent versions of HotSpot which finally obviated the issue.

We're talking core classes here. So I don't have a lot of faith in the bug reporting process.

PaulHoule• 15 years ago

Isn't it funny how the more glacially slow the pace a language takes, the more things break when a tiny little change happens?

The real story behind the Java 7 GA bugs affecting Apache Lucene / Solr

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