Nice to @Share?

[Peter Levart]

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 09:08:22 Zdenek Tronicek wrote:
> In some sense, Mark is right. Of course, you can share strongly immutable
> objects without any synchronization. But how to share the reference? If
> one thread stores a reference to a shared variable, how do you ensure that
> such change is visible in another thread? You need a barrier and this is
> probably where the hint "make the shared variables final" comes from.
> 
> Z.
> -- 
> Zdenek Tronicek
> FIT CTU in Prague
> 

The barrier is usually made when you dispatch the reference to function to some other thread, so you don't have to worry about it...

Peter