synchronized (this[.classinfo]) in druntime and phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/29/12 2:49 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 29-05-2012 23:32, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/29/12 1:35 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> Le 29/05/2012 01:38, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit :
>>>> I should probably add that Java learned it long ago, and yet we adopted
>>>> it anyway... blergh.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That is what I was about to say. No point of doing D if it is to repeat
>>> previously done errors.
>>
>> So what is the lesson Java learned, and how does it address
>> multithreaded programming in wake of that lesson?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> It learned that allowing locking on arbitrary objects makes controlling
> locking (and thus reducing the chance for deadlocks) impossible.

And how does Java address multithreading in general, and those issues in 
particular, today?

Andrei