[concurrency-interest] How to implement a self populating memoizer cache?

[Tim Peierls]

The Memoizer class presented in that section is only to illustrate a
technique. It lacks a number of useful features, and it is nowhere near
production-ready.

Use MapMaker anywhere you might have been tempted to use or adapt Memoizer.

--tim

2010/11/3 fabo wang <wangfabo1986 at gmail.com>

> Chapter 5,section 6.the book 《java concurrency in practic》
>
> 2010/11/4 Kevin Bourrillion <kevinb at google.com>
>
> Actually, I think he's looking at the GWT version of MapMaker, which is
>> Java code that is meant to be converted to Javascript and run --
>> single-threaded! -- in the browser.  Confusing, I know.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Charles Fry <fry at google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like you're looking at an old version of MapMaker. Check out the
>>> version in the guava project:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/trunk/src/com/google/common/collect/ComputingConcurrentHashMap.java#76
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 16:47, Nader Aeinehchi <nader at aeinehchi.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Dear Kevin,
>>>>
>>>> If I understand you correctly, MapMaker.ExpiringComputingMap (which I
>>>> believe you are referring to) is thread safe.  Furthermore, it guarantees
>>>> that threads will wait until the first thread computes for a given key.
>>>>
>>>> Following is an excerpt of MapMaker.ExpiringComputingMap.  Here, if the
>>>> result is null, the compute method is called and the calculated value is
>>>> put.  How is it guaranteed that another thread does not concurrently perform
>>>> the latter (calculation and put operations)?  Is not this a
>>>> read-modify-write scheme which according to JCiP book is a compound (not
>>>> atomic) operation?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In advance, thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     @Override
>>>>     public V get(Object k) {
>>>>       // from CustomConcurrentHashMap
>>>>       V result = super.get(k);
>>>>       if (result == null && computer != null) {
>>>>         /*
>>>>          * This cast isn't safe, but we can rely on the fact that K is
>>>> almost
>>>>          * always passed to Map.get(), and tools like IDEs and Findbugs
>>>> can
>>>>          * catch situations where this isn't the case.
>>>>          *
>>>>          * The alternative is to add an overloaded method, but the
>>>> chances of
>>>>          * a user calling get() instead of the new API and the risks
>>>> inherent
>>>>          * in adding a new API outweigh this little hole.
>>>>          */
>>>>         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
>>>>         K key = (K) k;
>>>>         result = compute(key);
>>>>       }
>>>>       return result;
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>>     private V compute(K key) {
>>>>       // from MapMaker
>>>>       V value;
>>>>       try {
>>>>         value = computer.apply(key);
>>>>       } catch (Throwable t) {
>>>>         throw new ComputationException(t);
>>>>       }
>>>>
>>>>       if (value == null) {
>>>>         String message = computer + " returned null for key " + key +
>>>> ".";
>>>>         throw new NullPointerException(message);
>>>>       }
>>>>       put(key, value);
>>>>       return value;
>>>>
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/03/2010 03:15 PM, Kevin Bourrillion wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Nader Aeinehchi <nader at aeinehchi.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  1. Please forgive me for my ignorance, but ExpiringComputingMap does
>>>>> not guarantee that a computable to be calculated only once for concurrent
>>>>> threads?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  "Map.get(java.lang.Object)<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html?is-external=true#get%28java.lang.Object%29>
>>>>  either returns an already-computed value for the given key, atomically
>>>> computes it using the supplied function, or, if another thread is currently
>>>> computing the value for this key, simply waits for that thread to finish and
>>>> returns its computed value. Note that the function may be executed
>>>> concurrently by multiple threads, but only for distinct keys."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>>> Kevin Bourrillion @ Google
>>>> http://guava-libraries.googlecode.com
>>>>
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