Semantics of VarHandle CAS methods

[Andrew Haley]

On 30/06/16 02:20, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> VarHandle.compareAndSet is strong in two ways - non-spurious and
> sequentially consistent.
> 
> VarHandle.weakCompareAndSet is weak in both these ways.
> (That seems like a mistake to me.
> The fact that j.u.c. Atomic classes are a precedent for this seems
> unfortunate.)

Is your disagreement purely about the name?  We have all of the
variants we need.

Andrew.