Jochen Theodorou a écrit :
> Rémi Forax schrieb:
>   
>> Jochen Theodorou a écrit :
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> can someone explain why java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal has to 
>>> be synchronized? ok, the method is called directly from the VM and I 
>>> assume that this is some kind of performance optimization, which helps 
>>> avoiding getting that lock the old fashioned way. But that method really 
>>> does nothing more than calling loadClass... which then can synchronize 
>>> or not? So is it there to enforce synchronization? Why that?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I don't know but it's no more the case if the classloader is parallel 
>> capable in jdk7.
>>     
>
> parallel capable? Is there some material on that?
>   

A parrallel capable classloader doesn't use the classloader as lock but
a lock by loaded class.

Javadoc API:
http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html
and 
http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#registerAsParallelCapable()

The only spec, I know is this mail :
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2008-November/000872.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/attachments/20081113/44f8229b/attachment-0004.html


> bye Jochen
>
>   
cheers,
Rémi

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