Joe, At the WingDing concurrency study group we have a long-standing question regarding the effect synchronize has on processor's cache. There are two schools...
Here's Joe's reply to my question. It appears that the "Graph-Walkers" win, at least as far as intent goes. ... __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail...
... Sounds great! I'm sure we can entertain ourselves and pitch in for Joe's dinner and beer with a discussion of invalidating caches and multiple threads and...
Further reply from Joe. We're all wrong! The more I learn, the less I know...sigh. ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
Here is the link to the article we've briefly talked about last night. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp07265/ Java theory and practice: Be a...
1) Immutable Objects must extend only other Immutable Objects. 2) Immutable Objects member variables must be final. my notes say "private final" but that's a...
... Not necessarily... If your collection contains only immutable objects, then it suffices to create another collection referencing the same immutables. ...
Hi Paul Campbell- ... "Urban performance legends, revisited" is a great article. Thanks for sharing. I'm pleased that my long held faith in Java, particularly...
Joe, WingDings is meeting at the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab (400 N 34th St, Seattle, WA 98103) in Ballard on Tuesday evening, October 11 at 7:00. Can...
Oops, Joe, WingDings doesn't meet in Ballard. We meet in Freemont. I've only lived here 5 years. Anyone could make that mistake, right? Bob ... === message...
In the "better late than never" category... The October 11 meeting of the Concurrency iteration of the WingDing Study Group was held at Pacific Wildland Fire...
I'm striking out with the Seattle Public Library meeting rooms. There are rooms available in both Ballard and Fremont, but they kick us out at 7:45 as the...
The Fire Sciences Lab is not available this week, so we're taking the show on the road and meeting at the Wallingford Tully's this week. The next meeting is......
Hi all, to follow up the discussion last night on findbugs, I've cobbled together a small distro containing my own Findbugs detector. Up for grabs at...
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp10185/index.html?ca=drs- Also, the graphical example that finally cemented "happens-before" in my head....
The October 25 meeting of the Concurrency iteration of the WingDing Study Group was held at the Wallingford Tully's. There were 6 participants. The coffee shop...
... I thought there was something like that in Eiffel, but then I've never programmed in Eiffel. No, not just recondition and post-condition, but something...
Somewhere along the line I lost my raincoat yesterday. Not a good thing to have happen during autumn in Seattle. Its a blue Columbia sports-wear hooded ...
Bob et. al. I'm not going to be able to make it on Tuesday (daughter flying in) and would not be able to make it on the Dec. 17th so would vote for us to skip ...