[Mono-list] Class library developers: locking issues to keep in mind

[Christian Ratliff]

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Serge,

  I have had to deal with this problem under both Java and C++ under
the IA32/SMP architecture, and it has never been a good time. Despite
all the assurances to the contrary, in the end we had to require
prior initialization of a lock dispensery.
  In any case, during my research into this problem, I bumped across
this document, you may find it interesting:

The "Double-Checked Locking is Broken" Declaration
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html

Good luck,
christian

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Christian Ratliff <cratliff@lily.org>
lily Development Group
"This is the very perfection of man, 
  to find out his own imperfections" -  St. Augustine

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