30.06.2011 13:31, Hans-Peter Diettrich:
If so, would it help to enclose above instructions in e.g.
Synchronized begin
update the links...
end;
If by such hypothetical "synchronized" operator you mean just memory
barriers and nothing else, then AFAICS this would not be of much use in
practice, because in case of strictly one thread barriers are unneeded
anyway, and in case of 2 or more threads barriers are typically
insufficient (because most of the time threads would also need race
protection, which is not provided by barriers alone).
If what you mean here is rather a full-blown critical section with just
some more elegant and generic syntax (i.e. a replacement of
EnterCriticalSection/LeaveCriticalSection a la java), then yes, it might
be nice, but mostly aesthetic-wise.
Nikolai
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