Subj : Re: Java vs. C++
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Holmes
Date : Mon Jun 06 2005 04:31 pm

"dayton" <mvglen04-cnews@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ONAme.22831$J12.18249@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> Not nearly enough do we see discussion of non-blocking algorithms such as
> those for a double-ended queue.  At least in C++ we can access and write
> code to implement such algorithms, even though we do have to resort to
> assembly language for the atomic CAS instructions.  In Java, if you want
> to do such things you have to call a C or C++ routine that's been
> written with a Java interface to do the same work.

The Java 5.0 release supports the writing of
lock-free/wait-free/non-blocking algorithms through the classes in the
java.util.concurrent.atomic package.

David Holmes

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