[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Review Reqeust for Bug 100068 - SunGraphics2D exposes a reference to itself while non fully initialised

[Jim Graham]

I should clarify that what I meant by "doesn't corrupt anything" is that 
the world won't come to an end or the system crash.  It's protected 
against harm from MT, but it doesn't support MT.

And another way of stating it is that we won't consider race condition 
bugs when it is used in an MT fashion, but we would consider fixing bugs 
that cause it to crash or that cause a G2D to latch onto a specific thread.

It's probably also a good place to let slip that a certain demo that was 
mentioned previously in the thread has always been considered "poorly 
written" and I wouldn't put it past it to be violating the threading 
design goals we have.  But I would never come right out and say 
something like that since it serves as a good "make sure even kooky 
things continue to work" telltale...  [goes back to looking nonchalant]

			...jim

Jim Graham wrote:
> My design goal was "doesn't corrupt anything if run from multiple 
> threads" (in other words don't require synchronization in any common 
> places just to keep it functional and don't require it to be used from a 
> particular thread), but only correct behavior if run from 1 thread at a 
> time.
> 
> In other words, it can be used by multiple threads in sequence, but not 
> simultaneously.
> 
>             ...jim