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Conflicting advice (or have I a bad memory)?

Posted by Bengt Kleberg on 16 Jul 1998, 12:54 AM

Greetings,

Some time ago I think I read an article (paper magazine) that dealt with
syncronisation. It seems to me that this article advocated putting the
"syncronized" keyword not on the critical sections themselfs, but instead
on methods. The idea was that the syncronisation overhead made this
a faster approach.
Note that the example had _several_ critical sections in each method.

So, my question then: Is the idea of syncronising methods instead of critical
sections just unneccessary sub optimising? Or does it have merit in the case
of several critical sections in one method?

• I'd lean towards minimizing synchronized code Bill Venners 16 Jul 1998, 1:36 AM (2)
  • Using the same lock in synchronized() Ylian Saint-Hilaire 29 Jul 1998, 7:02 AM (1)
    • Yes, only one thread at a time Bill Venners 12 Aug 1998, 2:43 PM (0)