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Re: Convenience Methods

Subject: Re: Convenience Methods
From: m <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:06:21 -0700

On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Erik Buck wrote:

On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:01 PM, Murat Konar wrote:
Wasn't the original motivation for immutable objects to simplify the implementation of multi-threaded or distributed code?
Maybe. How does it do that?

By obviating the need for synchronization mechanisms (e.g. mutexes) when sharing immutable objects in separate execution threads. You can't have a race condition for objects that don't change.

_murat
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