I said:
> I think this is acceptable too. It occurred to me though that the other
> fields must also be initialization safe "for free", so it might as
> well be stated more broadly. At least in any implementation I can
> imagine. But sometimes I don't have a good enough imagination.
Not nearly good enough. One thing the narrow version would allow is to
skip barriers on an unsync method accessing only non-final fields. Not
that this would ordinarily be very common most programa claiming to
be safe, but it might be common otherwise, so worth exploiting.
-Doug
PS I'll be away for a week starting now, so arguing with me will do
you no good :-)
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