Re: JavaMemoryModel: proposal for semantics & implementation on relaxed memory model machines

From: Bill Pugh (pugh@cs.umd.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 16 1999 - 17:02:02 EDT


>
>Well, in the spirit of sleaze^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompromise, how about:
>
> Every class that contains any final field is initialization safe
> (i.e., first-publication-safe).
> Others need not be.
>
>As mentioned before, there aren't any interesting cases where this
>doesn't have the right effect in practice. When any fields are
>mutable, programmers will need to lock anyway to eliminate conflicts.

Continuing in Doug's spirit...

Shouldn't this be that any final field is initalization safe, but
that other fields in the same class may not be?

        Bill

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