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Re: Autoboxing and Performance ?

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Autoboxing and Performance ?
Date 2013-08-21 07:19 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 8/21/2013 4:05 AM, Joerg Meier wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:19:36 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:
>
>>       Nonetheless, I'm still of the opinion that autoboxing is Satan's
>> work.  Another thread, somewhat further back, wondered why this
>> apparently thread-safe code wasn't thread-safe at all:
>
>> 	class Whatever {
>> 	    private static Integer counter;
>> 	    void someMethod() {
>> 	        synchronized(counter) {
>> 	            ++counter;
>> 	            ...
>> 	        }
>> 	    }
>> 	    ...
>> 	}
>
> I still don't see how that wouldn't be thread-safe, could you elaborate ?
> Or are we to assume other code touches counter without being in a
> synchronized(counter) block itself in this example ?

     The `counter' variable is not an Integer object, but a
reference to an Integer object.  The `++counter' line brings
a second Integer into the picture, and makes `counter' refer
to that new Integer instead of to the original.  However, the
block is still synchronized on the first one; it doesn't
somehow magically re-synchronize on the second.

     Assume `counter' points to Integer.valueOf(0) initially
(I ought to have showed the initialization in the snippet;
sorry).  Then with threads T1 and T2 executing:

	T1: synchronized(counter)  // locks the 0 object
	T1: ... now in critical section ...
	T1: ++counter;  // counter now points to the 1 object
	T1: ... still in critical section ...
	T2: synchronized(counter)  // locks the *1* object
	T2: ... now in critical section ...

Both T1 and T2 are now in the synchronized block simultaneously,
holding the locks of two different Integer objects.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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Autoboxing and Performance ? Peter Olcott <OCR4Screen> - 2013-08-20 05:15 -0500
  Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-08-20 12:20 +0200
    Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Peter Olcott <OCR4Screen> - 2013-08-20 05:33 -0500
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-08-20 10:43 +0000
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Peter Olcott <OCR4Screen> - 2013-08-20 06:04 -0500
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-08-20 08:08 -0400
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-20 20:15 -0400
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-20 20:12 -0400
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 03:52 +0300
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-08-21 07:27 +0200
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-21 18:43 -0400
            Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 08:08 +0300
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 07:56 +0300
            Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-08-22 10:51 -0700
              Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-08-22 19:36 +0000
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-08-22 13:01 -0700
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-08-22 21:19 +0000
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-08-22 14:39 -0700
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-08-22 19:50 -0700
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-08-23 23:16 +0000
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-08-24 17:20 +0300
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 11:08 -0700
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-08-23 22:52 +0200
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 16:38 -0700
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-23 06:17 -0400
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-23 17:25 -0400
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-25 18:34 -0400
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-28 10:52 -0400
                Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-08-23 23:37 +0000
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-08-26 19:33 +0200
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-08-29 10:09 +0300
            Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-08-29 14:14 +0200
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-08-29 21:28 -0300
  Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-08-20 20:03 +0200
    Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 16:23 -0700
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-08-21 11:51 +0200
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 08:39 -0700
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-08-21 16:51 +0100
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-21 19:19 -0400
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-08-22 09:49 +0200
    Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-08-21 11:54 +0200
  Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-20 20:06 -0400
    Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-08-20 21:19 -0400
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-08-21 10:05 +0200
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-08-21 07:19 -0400
          Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-08-22 00:18 +0200
            Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-08-21 19:58 -0400
        Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 08:36 -0700
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-21 09:37 -0700
  Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-08-20 23:28 -0500
  Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-08-21 10:09 +0100
    Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-21 19:04 -0400
      Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2013-08-22 07:39 +0200
  Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-08-29 01:42 -0300

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