[concurrency-interest] Clarification: volatile, final and atomic ops

[Jason T. Greene]

Ashwin Jayaprakash wrote:
> Thanks Jason!
> 
> I knew about JSR-133, but it still does not clarify if accessing a 
> "final" field or local variable is slower than a non-final field, for 
> what ever reasons... Does a final field/variable access incur additional 
> cost?

A final field has cost since it does prevent certain reorderings that 
allow it to be safely published to another thread. Although, due to it's 
restrictions, final field access can be optimized more than volatile access.

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Jason T. Greene
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