Fixing the Java Memory Model, Part 2 (IBM developerWorks)

[Posted March 31, 2004 by cook]

Brian Goetz continues his series on the Java Memory Model with part two. "JSR 133, which has been active for nearly three years, has recently issued its public recommendation on what to do about the Java Memory Model (JMM). In Part 1 of this series, columnist Brian Goetz focused on some of the serious flaws that were found in the original JMM, which resulted in some surprisingly difficult semantics for concepts that were supposed to be simple. This month, he reveals how the semantics of volatile and final will change under the new JMM, changes that will bring their semantics in line with most developers' intuition."

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