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RE: Fibonacci and performance
- To: "'Cedric Berger'" <cedric at wireless-networks dot com>, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: RE: Fibonacci and performance
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 14:31:03 -0700
- Cc: Java Discuss List <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
I think
Manson and Pugh, Semantics of Multithreaded Java,
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/semantics.pdf
is pretty close to the current state of the proposal. The directory it's in
has lots of background information.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cedric Berger [mailto:cedric@wireless-networks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 2:24 PM
> To: Boehm, Hans
> Cc: Java Discuss List
> Subject: Re: Fibonacci and performance
>
>
> "Boehm, Hans" wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > This of course is not required by the C spec., nor does it
> say a lot about
> > other architectures. But if it's doing this right, then the C
> > implementation should be very close to what's required by
> the proposed new
> > Java memory model.
> >
> > The new model of course also still requires atomicity for
> longs and doubles.
> > But that's free on Itanium and Alpha Linux.
>
> What is the "proposed new java memory model"?
>
> Cedric
>
>