On 20 March 2012 06:51, Tamar Fraenkel <ta...@tok-media.com> wrote: > But the increment is thread safe right? if I have two threads trying to > increment a counter, then they won't step on each other toe?
That's right - you can have many threads incrementing the same counter and it's safe. But reading and incrementing is unsafe. Richard. -- Richard Low Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu