>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Manson <jmanson@cs.umd.edu> writes:
>> Eliot Moss Writes:
>>
>> (Just like the fact that my concurrent collector may do something
>> bad to programs with data races on non-volatile fields doesn't
>> bother -- people who code things like that deserve nasty results.)
Jeremy> As long as the end result is type-safe and
Jeremy> "not-out-of-thin-air". I had gotten the sense from your
Jeremy> previous message that at worst your GC will provide a stale
Jeremy> (but legitimate) value, right?
Yes, with the possible exception of values that cannot be written with a
single write, which might apply to longs on some hardware architectures,
etc. I believe that all popular machines can write all Java primitive types
in a single write, avoiding such splitting. Anyone know anything to the
contrary, or prepared to speak to this question more authoritatively?
-- Eliot
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