The "no gc" crowd

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, October 10, 2013 19:43:40 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/10/13 7:37 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> > Anyway, that whole concept of synchronized class is a deadlock honeypot.
> > It should be scrapped altogether.
> 
> People still use it.

To some extent in that some folks used synchronized functions, but 
synchronized classes haven't been implemented at all. What we have right now 
is basically just a copy of Java's synchronized function feature. Synchronized 
classes aren't drastically different, but whatever nuances come with the 
difference are completely unrealized at this point.

I think that synchronized classes have their uses, but I'd honestly still be 
inclined to use them sparingly. It's frequently too much to lock a whole 
object at once rather than the single member or group of members that actually 
need the lock.

- Jonathan M Davis