6647361: use Unsafe.put*Volatile methods to set final fields during default deserialization

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 20:37:07 UTC 2010


> I've also been concerned about performance. As I understand it, but maybe
> I have
> it wrong, is that the JLS [1] doesn't allow this when changing final
> fields
> after an object is constructed.

But don't we have the same overhead at object construction time?
I remember having read somewhere the JVM issues fence/barrier
instructions after an object has been created?

- Clemens



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