Re: Locking objects in an array
On May 5, 6:22 pm, Eric Sosman <Eric.Sos...@sun.com> wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
[...]
Synchronization with varying block sizes would be more complicated.
One way to approach it would be with recursion. I'll illust=
rate
with a List and an Iterator, although they're by no means the only way
to keep track:
List<Thing> things = new ...;
for (int dr = 0; dr < rspan; ++dr) {
for (int dc = 0; dc < cspan; ++dc)
things.add(lattice[r+dr][c+dc]);
}
doDirtyDeed(things.iterator(), things);
...
void doDirtyDeed(Iterator<Thing> it, List<Thing> things) =
{
if (it.hasNext()) {
synchronized(it.next()) {
doDirtyDeed(it, things);
}
}
else {
// all the Things' locks are now held
// do things to Things in "things"
}
}
This is a clever approach. Thanks for sharing it.
Phil
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