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RE: Thread.interrupt() etc
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- Subject: RE: Thread.interrupt() etc
- From: Miles Sabin <msabin at cromwellmedia dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:04:50 -0000
Mojo Jojo wrote,
> - Does anyone care about async cancelation yet? Analogy:
> hardware interrupt, between any two instructions vs only at
> certain subroutine calls.
Yes: don't do it. Java doesn't support async cancellation ...
Thread.stop() isn't just deprecated, it's no longer implemented
in any of Sun's recent JVMs.
> There are codegen complications.
You betcha ...
Cheers,
Miles
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