Re: Safety Of Non-Synchronized Collections
On 1/9/13 2:51 PM, Lew wrote:
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Lew wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
Well, there's the fact that StringBuffer is not thread-safe.
Sun advertised it as such even if it were not perfectly so. When
Never saw it advertised as such myself.
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Directly in StringBuffer JavaDoc, where you'd expect.
From <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/StringBuffer.html>
The first two paragraphs:
A thread-safe, mutable sequence of characters. A string buffer is like a String, but can be modified. At any point in time it contains some particular sequence of characters, but the length and content of the sequence can be changed through certain method calls.
String buffers are safe for use by multiple threads. The methods are synchronized where necessary so that all the operations on any particular instance behave as if they occur in some serial order that is consistent with the order of the method calls made by each of the individual threads involved.
They lied.
'StringBuffer' is no more thread safe than any other class with synchronized methods.
Which is more safe than other classes without synchronized methods.
They are thread-safe to the point that each method call is atomic. What
else could you ask for? They didn't lie.
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