Re: Safety Of Non-Synchronized Collections
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.
...
Directly in StringBuffer JavaDoc, where you'd expect.
From <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/StringBuffer.ht=
ml>
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 particu=
lar 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 syn=
chronized where necessary so that all the operations on any particular inst=
ance behave as if they occur in some serial order that is consistent with t=
he order of the method calls made by each of the individual threads involve=
d.
They lied.
'StringBuffer' is no more thread safe than any other class with synchronize=
d methods.
--
Lew
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