An interesting (and useful) consideration. ("Self-documenting code" is
one of my favorite themes, but somehow forgot about it in this case.)
Thank you all for your answers.
Peter
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Ben Manes <
ben_manes@...> wrote:
> I prefer AtomicReference instead of volatile simply because it is more
> obvious to other developers and they can quickly look at the JavaDoc. That
> means that if someone who is looking at my code and does not work regularly
> with threads, it shouldn't be a surprise. Most Java developers I've met
> don't quite understand volatile, so its one less thing to confuse them.
> Pretty much stylistic, as David said, since they perform comparably...
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Holmes <
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> To: concurrency-interest <
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> Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2008 4:49:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [concurrency-interest] volatile reference vs. AtomicReference
>
> Reference assignment is always atomic.
>
> I wouldn't bother with AtomicReference unless I needed the CAS. But it's a
> stylistic choice more than anything.
>
> David Holmes
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
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>> Kovacs
>> Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 6:37 PM
>> To: concurrency-interest
>> Subject: [concurrency-interest] volatile reference vs. AtomicReference
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been wondering whether it makes sense to use AtomicReference
>> instead of a volatile reference, if I only call the get() and set()
>> method of AtomicReference. Or is it that reference assignment is not
>> atomic in 32-bit JVMs?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Peter
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