On 17 Oct 2012, at 16:59, Jason Greene <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> Not sure about the safety of the computeIfAbsent/computeIfPresent approach, 
>>> as I don't have any experience with it, but doesn't CHMV8 use unsafe 
>>> operations that prevent us from using in SecurityManager scenarios?
>> 
>> I'll have to check.
> 
> It does use Unsafe. This isn't really a security manager problem though 
> because you just need the permission to access a protected field, which we 
> usually always need anyway. The bigger problem is portability, although all 
> known JDKs have these Unsafe classes, because they all use the same 
> concurrent impl code. That said, you can be 100% sure by simply making a 
> version that uses AtomicFieldUpdaterXXX, extending AtomicXXX, and using other 
> constructs and using that as the fall back version. That's what I do anyway :)

The current CHMv8 impl from jsr166e works fine under IBM's JDK.  That's the 
only one I know of that is not based on OpenJDK.  I suppose maybe worthwhile 
testing on JRockit too … 


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