On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In short, the use of volatile is not guaranteed to see an update from > a different thread in any timely manner. The Java Memory Model does > not ensure this. Are you sure? http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr-133-faq.html#volatile seems to indicate it does, and I've always believed it does as well. The incrementing thing is obvious, though :) -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
