Packing 2 data points into 1 field in ThreadPoolExecutor

[Vitaly Davidovich]

It allows to manipulate two (related) bits of info atomically without
needing a lock and when efficient double CAS is not available (which it
isn't on supported archs).

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On Dec 1, 2014 12:23 PM, "Alex Yursha" <alexyursha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> According to javadoc current implementation of ThreadPoolExecutor packs
> two conceptual fields ‘workerCount’ and ‘runState’ into one actual field
> ‘ctl’ of type AtomicInteger.
>
> Could you please explain are there any performance or other benefits for
> this? It seems to complicate the class design and I can’t find the positive
> side of this.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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