On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 17:49:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
To what end? What are you trying to save?
I'm trying to reimplement std.variant in a nice OOP way, that
supports CTFE, zero-size and a minimal amount of void*-casts. For
that i'm using my VariantPayload(T) class, which i want to be as
small as possible, as this is supposed to be an utility class
which you never know how will be used.
It would not be derived from Object, which has the field. In
other words, this would crash:
synchronized(cast(Object)obj) { ... }
Wouldn't cast(Object) return null here, so that synchronized will
throw or assert or smth? I see no reason for a crash.
Perhaps you meant unshared classes? No, they don't, but a
monitor is only allocated on demand, so you don't have to worry
about it.
Errm.. I'm not sure i understand the subject correctly, but
according to Alexandrescu's book, a class declared as shared does
not require synchronized() over it. I mean, it manages it's
synchronization inside itself, and it's user just has to trust
it. And if so, why ever synchronizing() on it?
