[cpp-threads] modes, pass 2

Alexander Terekhov alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Mon May 9 11:22:00 BST 2005


On 5/8/05, Doug Lea <dl at cs.oswego.edu> wrote:
[...]
> Actually, I think you don't understand the sense of "release". Sorry.
> It's the main reason I apologized for crummy names.
> Here, release is intended to ensure that read-after-write
> works, which entails a heavy storeLoad barrier.
> 
> Better names would be very very welcome.

How about java_edition_release? ;-)

Well, I'm still not sure that I'm not missing or misunderstaing 
something here.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030529104801/http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/archive/1220.html
(ExitEnter...)

Perhaps it's time for you to answer/elaborate. ;-)

regards,
alexander.




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