Re: Patch: Thread.holdLock implementation in java

[Archie Cobbs]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > Personally, I think that nothing should ever be "spurious", but
> > it looks like I already lost that argument :-)
> 
> I've got a reference for that, too :)
> 
> http://www.lambdacs.com/cpt/FAQ.html#Q94
> 
> "Spurious wakeups may sound strange but on some multiprocessor systems, 
> making condition wakeup completely predictable might substantially slow 
> all condition variable operations. [Butenhof]"

Ah.. that's a very good point that I didn't think of.. OK I'm convinced :-)

-Archie

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