RFR (S): JEP-142: Reduce Cache Contention on Specified Fields (original) (raw)

Aleksey Shipilev aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com
Mon Nov 26 08:44:51 PST 2012


On 11/26/2012 08:22 PM, Doug Lea wrote:

One small suggestion to slightly appease the nanny-state folks. How about burying the annotation one lever deeper to java.util.concurrent.atomic.

But the construction of @Contended has nothing to do with atomics, right? (Yes, the sanest use case is to protect atomically-updated fields.) "Nanny-state folks" would naturally presume annotating the plain field with @Contended will turn all operations on that field into atomics :)

Alternatives: java.util.concurrent.hints.Contended java.util.concurrent.expert.Contended java.util.concurrent.unsafe.Contended java.util.concurrent.herebedragons.Contended :)

I think the high-level annotation is already good.

-Aleksey.



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