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From: v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert)
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Subject: AtomicReferenceArray writes and visibility
Date: 31 Mar 2011 05:43:42 GMT
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Hello all,

reading on the "new" memory model and AtomicReferenceArray, it
seems that anything done before a .set() on an AtomicReferenceArray
"happens-before" anything done after a .get() on the same
AtomicReferenceArray.

Two questions:

1. Am I right?
2. If so, does this hold true if the write does not actually change
   the value, in other words, if the write only "refreshes" the
   memory location?

Thank you

	V.B.

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