Whirlwind tour of java atomic package
Whirlwind tour of java atomic package
With the introduction of java.util.concurrent.atomic package in Java SE 5, java exposed CAS (Compare and Swap) to the developers. In this post I will try to expound an overall organization of the classes and few insights into the implementation.
Since the Atomic implementations use CAS in a loop to perform updates, they out perform lock based solutions (since they can avoid overheads of thread…
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