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Re: Non-synchronized StringBuffer




Tom Tromey wrote:

> It isn't as easy as it sounds.  For one thing, a reference is passed
> to any methods invoked on it, and these methods might save `this' (for
> that matter, a constructor might save `this' somewhere).


We could annotate class files with this information.  It wouldn't be 
perfect, but my guess is that it would still be very useful (esp. with 
String and the like).

AG



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