Re: Aliasing and Garbage Collection

[Richard Beton <richard.beton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Cooke wrote:

> [I'm confused what any of this has to do with Java threads - I don't
> mind reading this stuff, but I apologise if it seems too off-topic for
> others]

At the CPA2000 conference in September, Tom Locke aired his ideas for
improving program security in multi-threaded systems through the strict
control of aliasing. This is off-topic for Java, in the sense that Java is
like many other OO languages in depending completely on aliasing. It's not
off-topic for discussions on multi-threaded programming, in which
correctness of program behaviour should be important w.r.t communication and
synchronisation between threads.

Hope that makes it clearer. :-)

Rick

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