@Adrien, Ok, got it. So, it seems like every read requests is a separated thread in itself. Right? Thanks for your reply.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Adrien Mogenet <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > A static method does not necessary mean that this could lead to a > thread-safety issue. In that case, there is no shared resources between > threads and thus... nothing to protect. > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:56 AM, anil gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have to use > > *Bytes.compareTo< > > > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.html#compareTo%28byte[],%20byte[]%29 > > > > > *(byte[] left, byte[] right) method in one of my coprocessor(HBASE-7474) > > stuff. Basically, i want to do comparison on the basis of Lexicographical > > order of byte[] of cell value. Similar to BinaryComparator in HBase. > > > > Since, *Bytes.compareTo< > > > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.html#compareTo%28byte[],%20byte[]%29 > > > > > *(byte[] left, byte[] right) is static method and it doesnt have any > > synchronization. How do we guarantee that this method is thread safe? I > am > > curious to know is it safe to use the static method on > > RegionServer(multithreaded environment)? > > > > Please correct me if i stated something wrong above. > > > > -- > > Thanks & Regards, > > Anil Gupta > > > > > > -- > Adrien Mogenet > http://www.borntosegfault.com > -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta
