Re: Cooperative threading preemptive threading - a bit confused
On Dec 28, 12:12 pm, Mark Space <marksp...@sbc.global.net> wrote:
Karl wrote:
One would hope that the VM specification would sufficiently constrain th=
e
variations such that developers in most cases could write to the Java
threading model, and not be concerned about the platform. Are there any
articles or white papers describing specific situations where this is no=
t
the case?
Yes, even basic books mention this. Learning Java by O'Reilly mentions
that not all JVM support preemptive multitasking. The JLS does the
opposite of what you hope. It pushes the responsibility for using
threads correctly in all environments onto the programmer. The JLS spec=
on threads is a lot less defined than you are assuming.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/memory.html
Now I haven't read all of that, because I haven't had to deal with
complicated multi-thread apps yet, but at least I know it exists and
where to find it.
In particular, it is a valid Java VM implementation that, when a new
thread is started, runs only the new thread until it terminates or
until it blocks while synchronizing on a monitor.
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