Re: Fibonacci and performance

[Cedric Berger <cedric at wireless-networks dot com>]

Thanks a lot!
Cedric


"Boehm, Hans" wrote:

> 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
> >
> >