The "no gc" crowd

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/10/13 7:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, October 10, 2013 18:21:52 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> You can't EVER expect to obtain all of that magic by plastering "shared"
>> on top of your type.
>
> It works just fine with the idiom that I described where you protect the usage
> of the object with a lock, cast it to thread-local to do stuff on it, and then
> release the lock (making sure that no thread-local references remain).

TDPL describes how synchronized automatically peels off the "shared" off 
of direct members of the object. Unfortunately that feature is not yet 
implemented.


Andrei