RFR 8005311: Add Scalable Updatable Variables, DoubleAccumulator, DoubleAdder, LongAccumulator, LongAdder

[Martin Buchholz]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

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> The code is not very java-ish,
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Yes, j.u.c.-java is hard to read due to extreme performance orientation and
need to save reads in locals everywhere, and pretty far from java
programmer mainstream.

I'm also looking at LongAccumulator.accumulate(long).

- shouldn't "function" also be pulled into a local?
- Why "as"?  Why not "cs"?  Did Cell once have a name beginning with "A"?
- (m = as.length - 1) < 0  ?? as.length should always be >= 2, so this
check should be redundant.  Or is this to help hotspot elide NPE throw code?
- We're checking as for null twice, which bugs me a bit.
- Why not push most of this method into Striped64, as in

Striped64: void accumulateLong(long x, LongBinaryOperator fn)
LongAccumulator: void accumulate(long x) { return accumulateLong(x,
function); }

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I still like this style for pulling final fields into locals (but others
don't seem to share my taste):
final Cell[] cells = this.cells;
final LongBinaryOperator function = this.function;