Re: Intended uses of 1.5 atomics package
Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
class foo {
private AtomicInteger bar=new AtomicInteger();
^final
(really make sure each thread see the initialiser value)
public int getBar() {
return bar.get();
}
public void incrementBar() {
bar.getAndIncrement();
}
}
Does this example miss the real point of why the
java.util.concurrent.atomic classes exist?
The code isn't much simpler. However it may well be much faster,
particularly on a multiprocessor machine where an instance is used
frequently by multiple threads.
There is a similar example in the 1.6 (mustang) API docs for ThreadLocal
(which now even compiles).
http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/lang/ThreadLocal.html
From 1.5, in the source of java.util.Random.next there is an example of
using AtomicLong.compareAndSet to avoid a lock (could have used
weakCompareAndSet in this particular case). In 1.5 the class as a whole
is theoretically thread unsafe as the AtomicLong is not final.
Tom Hawtin
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