Re: Synchronization Question
Richard Maher wrote:
Hi Kenneth,
"Kenneth P. Turvey" <evoturvey@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:34:44 -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
If it is *never* actually read, why not get rid of it completely? The
fastest write is the one that does not get done at all.
I'm going to assume that the array is not read during the operation, but
is read after it is finished.
You're interpretation was correct. It isn't read until much later after
all the threads doing the update complete.
The JLS requires individual int writes to be atomic, so there is no
possibility of a mixed value from two different writes.
Well, that solves that problem.
That is comforting. With no control over memory alignment and RISCesque
load/modify/store operations Java is able to guarantee cross-quadword atomic
writes without additional synchronization? I like it! (Bytes as well, or
just longwords and up?)
....
The Java programmer has no control over memory alignment, but the
JVM has both total control, and responsibility for following the rules
in the JLS. It can simply avoid putting an int at any location that
would be a problem on the machine it is running on.
The same rules do apply to bytes and shorts. The Java implementation is
permitted to treat a write to a 64 bit primitive, long or double, as two
32 bit writes.
I think the usual strategy is to place int fields and variables at 0 mod
4 byte addresses, but as a Java programmer I don't have to worry about that.
Patricia
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