On 04/14/2015 10:38 AM, MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management) wrote:
On 12/04/2015 15:54, "Remi Forax" <fo...@univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
Hi guys,
I was about to write a blog post explaining why i don't like the way
VarHandle are currently implemented when it occurs to me that providing
another implementation may be a more efficient to discuss about
implementation.
So my implementation is here,
https://github.com/forax/varhandle2
the API is typesafe, the implementation is runtime safe and i get mostly
the same assembly code using unsafe or this VarHandle API.
The idea is that there is no need to add more polymorphic signature
methods, a good old Java method is enough if it using a method handle
under the hood.
All the logic is described using method handles and the only logic
written in Java is
1) when to create such method handle (the first time a method is called),
it works like invokedynamic but the method handles are stable
instead of being constant.
2) how to link all things together to do nullcheck, atomic operation and
post operation (like fence or sum).
Although I agree regarding the type safety of this being better than the
polymorphic signatures of the current VarHandle API, this doesn¹t feel
like it has the right shape. How would your API expand to handle user
defined value types? I think if we want something type safe then
specialisation over type variables would be a much better path forward for
this, assuming the two can be lined up in when they might be delivered
into the main JDK.
Regards, Duncan.
Hi Duncan,
in my opinion, there are two different issues,
one is to provide a safe API for doing things people currently do with
Unsafe,
the other is the support of value type for some of these operations.
The prototype i have written is good to do the former but not the later.
Supporting value type will require 3 things:
- being able to declare a type variable as any, like you can do with
the vahalla compiler
- adding support of value types in the method handle API, exactly
being able
to invoke a method handle with a value type as parameter.
- adding support of value types in Unsafe
If you know the answer to the last point, everything else will fold.
Before that, I think we can deliver an API that does a CAS in a safe way
without directly using sun.misc.Unsafe.
BTW, perhaps we do not need a new API but just change the implementation
of the classes of java.util.concurrent.atomic.
regards,
Rémi
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