On 06/18/2018 11:22 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Or better, lockField.set in resetLock could instead be setRelease.
> Except it is using reflection, not VarHandles. So it could be preceded
> with VarHandle.releaseFence(), although it is hard to think of a
> scenario in which it could matter.
>
>
> You mean followed by, not preceded by?
>
> try {
> lockField.set(this, new Object());
> + java.lang.invoke.VarHandle.releaseFence();
> } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
> throw new Error(e);
> }
>
OK. Followed by is a little better in that it orders any field write
before any write of this, not just the array copy before lock field write.
-Doug
