At 05:36 PM 29/03/2004 -0500, Bill Pugh wrote:
>You have some sort of simulation/relaxation based algorithm,
>with a shared data structure, multiple threads that are updating
>the data structure and multiple threads reading the data structure.
>
>The updating threads do not have to synchronize among themselves,
>since they are updating disjoint sections of the shared data structure.
>
>The reading threads don't need to see any particular iteration of the
>update, or the most recent update. They just want to see data that isn't
>too far out of date.
>
>With the strong interpretation, it suffices to have a shared volatile, and
>each updating thread periodically write to the volatile, and each reading
>thread periodically read the volatile.
Sorry, but I'm a little sceptical here. Does even this use case have a
non-contrived implementation that is DRF under the strong definition, but
not under the weak one?
Sylvia.
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