On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 11:51:02 UTC, ponce wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 10:57:55 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Yep, I prefer to think it sets of variables that need mutex
protection. And these are not generally the set of member
fields in a class.
Exactly. And that makes things using synchronized prone to
longer and more frequent locks.
Yep. Labeling methods and classes as synchronized and shared is
mostly for the sake of facilitating static analysis. But I think
it comes at the cost of good program design. Beyond facilitating
a direct port of Java code I don't know why you'd use
synchronized at the method or class level.
