I believe your refering to the server implementation, it doesn't need to run on 
1.4, from your investigations it sounds like it wouldn't be optimal either.

Cheers,

Peter

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> The key data structure underlying the outrigger implementation needs
> significant changes to make it fully reliable with the 1.5 memory model.
>    Do we need to keep a version around that works on 1.5, or is support
> for JavaSpaces on 1.5 and later sufficient?
>
> The current implementation uses double checked locking and related
> techniques that were thought to work with the 1.4 memory model, and do
> work most of the time on most 1.4 systems, but have some holes depending
> on optimizer and hardware. If it has to run on 1.4, it would probably
> need some work, and be a different data structure from 1.5 and later.
>
> For 1.5, I am thinking of finding or writing a list-like data structure
> with the following characteristics:
>
> 1. Preserves order of arrival, so that it is possible to obtain the
> oldest entry, or all entries older than a specified entry, or scan in
> age order.
>
> 2. Removal from anywhere in the list.
>
> 3. Very fast parallel scans.
>
> This data structure would replace FastList in outrigger. It might also
> be useful for TaskManager.
>
> Any suggestions for an existing Java 1.5 compatible data structure that
> can be used in River and meets these requirements?
>
> Patricia
>

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