Timeline for How does immutability remove the need for locks when two threads are trying to update the shared state?
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 21:52 | comment | added | Winston Ewert | @Stargazer712, its an implementation detail, but in my experience, the workers are usually launched in a thread pool and I've got some sort of future which uses a lock of some sort to implement its waiting logic. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 21:44 | comment | added | riwalk |
This is a nice simple example. Note that waitForWorkerToFinish() probably doesn't do a lock, but rather just does some form of Thread.join(), which is different.
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 21:39 | history | answered | Winston Ewert | CC BY-SA 3.0 |