Re: Peterson's Algorithm in java, sequencial instruction execution ?
Mike Schilling wrote:
"Mark Thornton" <mark.p.thornton@ntl-spam-world.com> wrote in message
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Mike Schilling wrote:
"Mark Thornton" <mark.p.thornton@ntl-spam-world.com> wrote in message
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It's not obvious to me that the use of atomics is substantially more
"efficient" than using synchronization. (Yes, I see lazySet() and
weakCompareAndSet(), but how often would one use them?)
No idea. I suspect that Doug Lea is one of the few people who could
answer that question.
If you see him, ask if he knows what PhantomReferences are for too. :-)
Objects that are only phantom reachable can't be resurrected by finalize,
so they are definitely dead.
OK. Can you give me an example of how you'd use a PhantomReference
programmatically? I've asked this before on the n.g, and never gotten an
answer.
Usually you would extends PhantomReference with your own custom class,
and register it with a reference queue, so you know when the object it
was referencing has gone away.
Its a very edge case, usually you would use WeakReference (such as in
WeakHashMap)
If you look at the WeakHashMap implementation in Sun's JDK, each Entry
object extends WeakReference, where the referenced object is the value
of the Entry.
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