<AWT Dev> Question regarding locking in EventQueue

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Tue Nov 16 04:21:29 PST 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:55 +0100, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Interesting, I didn't know that. Do you have any pointers to documents
> about this? Would be interesting for me to see how that works.
> Intuitively I would have assumed that the bytecode level locking would
> be more efficient than method calls. I know these are intrinsics, but
> still ... how can those be *more* efficient? Just curious...

This was recently asked on the concurrency-discuss list:
http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2010-November/007491.html

        > Does synchronized still have a better internal implementation over
        > j.u.c.Lock as this old blog entry says -
        > http://blogs.sun.com/dave/entry/java_util_concurrent_reentrantlock_vs ?
        >
        
        The scales have shifted back and forth, but it's not something to worry
        about at this point.




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