On 11/4/13 12:12 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
> But aggregation needs to lock so not a real solution. Lock is fine on real
> cases but not in simple/light ones. ThreadLocal leaks...so a trade off
> should be found

Depends on the use case.  If the use case is

0) launch a bunch of threads and let them gather stats individually
1) aggregate results

Then the static aggregate method in AggregateSummaryStatistics that
takes a collection as input will work with no locking required.

Phil
> Le 4 nov. 2013 18:42, "Phil Steitz" <phil.ste...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> On 11/4/13 8:49 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> ATM sirona (a java monitoring library in incubator) relies a lot on
>>> Summary stats object from [math3] but it needed a lock to ensure
>>> consistency. I know there is a synchronized version but this one
>>> scales less then the locked one.
>>>
>>> My question is quite simple then: will [math] add an implementation
>>> with thread safety guarantee and good performances? I think for
>>> instance to the LongAdder of Doug Lea which could be used as a good
>>> base.
>> The short answer is yes, patches welcome.
>>
>> Ted makes a good point, though; and there is already some support
>> for aggregation in the stats classes in [math] (i.e., you can
>> aggregate the results of per-thread stats by using, e.g.
>> AggregateSummaryStatistics#aggregate).  See MATH-1016 re extending
>> this to more stats.
>>
>> Phil
>>
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