RE: JavaMemoryModel: More ordering constraints does not imply mor e reliable software

From: David Holmes (dholmes@dstc.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 20:27:03 EDT


Miles Sabin wrote:

> But surely "needed simply to complement the volatile actions that
> already exist in the code" is the typical (only?) case.

Yes - I was reaching agreement with you that for those cases the simple
barrier helper class achieves almost nothing. On the other hand something
like VolatileInt might be more useful.

Cheers,
David Holmes
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