[concurrency-interest] Joda-Time immutability

[Mark Thornton]

On 01/08/11 22:15, Shay Banon wrote:
> I just did a quick test by changing to volatile field the 1.6 release, 
> and on my machine I see 6x worse perf on 10 million data points (on a 
> "real world" use case in my system, end to end). Naturally, this will 
> vary depending on many aspects (number of cores, os) in terms of how 
> volatile write and read are handled. I really think that this is the 
> wrong solution to the "problem", but up to you...
What sort of machine are you using? My impression was that volatile is 
quite cheap on x86.

Mark Thornton