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Re: How to implement readonly property
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Re: How to implement readonly property


  • Subject: Re: How to implement readonly property
  • From: Steve Sisak <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:17:56 -0500

At 10:24 AM -0800 12/8/12, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Dec 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Steve Sisak <email@hidden> wrote:

> Further, if writes were not complete at the end of the block, the construct would be essentially useless for its intended purpose.

By the way, you're wrong about this too. All @synchronized does is act as a mutex around a code block. It does not cause the compiler to reorder instructions and issue memory barriers in such a way that initialization is guaranteed to precede assignment from the perspective of all threads.

Please cite a source for this assertion.

From:

<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Multithreading/ThreadSafety/ThreadSafety.html>

"If you are already using a mutex to protect a section of code, do not automatically assume you need to use the volatile keyword to protect important variables inside that section. A mutex includes a memory barrier to ensure the proper ordering of load and store operations."

I acknowledge that, without proper memory barriers, double-checked locking is problematic, but am providing an example using a construct which I'm fairly sure uses proper memory barriers.

-Steve
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