On May 16, 2014, at 4:56 AM, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Is it sufficient then to use synchronized (lambdaForms) { ... } in
> setCachedLambdaForm(..) and a normal read in cachedLambdaForm(..)?
Yes, that is how I see it. The fast path is a racy non-volatile read of a
safely-published structure.
(If safe publication via arrays were broken, java.lang.String would be broken.
But the JMM is carefully designed to support safe publication of array
elements, and through array elements.)
— John
