Re: [cp-patches] StringBuilder and Appendable for CVS HEAD

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Frijters <address@hidden> writes:

>> Anyway, I'd prefer we find a way to make it possible not to reallocate
>> the characters when constructing the String.  It seems to me that
>> sharing is optimizing for the common case.

Jeroen> I'd prefer it too, but it simply isn't possible (without
Jeroen> synchronization).

What if we mark the "shared" field volatile?

It would be exceedingly lame if this class, whose motivation must just
be improved performance, simply represents a tradeoff of
synchronization versus GC.

Tom