On Sun, 18 May 2003, Michael Schierl wrote: > IMO volatile without synchronized is only a good idea for booleans > (volatile booleans will be reread as often as possible, non-volatile > booleans may be cached by each thread till the next enter/exit of a > synchronized block) or for longs/doubles (for preventing mangled > values), but not for ints.
Probably more than half of you have seen this, but for those who haven't, I thought this was pertinent: Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp04223.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01JavaUrbanLegends (Which is not to say mihi's above stated tip counts as "urban" or, for that matter, "performance".) -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
