Sometimes people who build low-level code with mutable state that’s shared across threads don’t know about some of the synchronization tools Java has. A lot of people know about synchronized, a lot of people know about semaphores, but fewer people seem to know about CountDownLatch and fewer still seem to have heard about Phaser. Those last two have saved me from having to implement my own synchronization code on a number of occasions.
I had never heard of Phaser, but it looks pretty cool. I just read Baeldung’s Guide to Phaser and correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it kind of seem like a race condition (it could just be how they use it in the examples)?
Sometimes people who build low-level code with mutable state that’s shared across threads don’t know about some of the synchronization tools Java has. A lot of people know about
synchronized, a lot of people know about semaphores, but fewer people seem to know about CountDownLatch and fewer still seem to have heard about Phaser. Those last two have saved me from having to implement my own synchronization code on a number of occasions.I had never heard of Phaser, but it looks pretty cool. I just read Baeldung’s Guide to Phaser and correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it kind of seem like a race condition (it could just be how they use it in the examples)?
class LongRunningAction implements Runnable { private String threadName; private Phaser ph; LongRunningAction(String threadName, Phaser ph) { this.threadName = threadName; this.ph = ph; ph.register(); } @Override public void run() { ph.arriveAndAwaitAdvance(); try { Thread.sleep(20); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } ph.arriveAndDeregister(); } }then
executorService.submit(new LongRunningAction("thread-1", ph)); executorService.submit(new LongRunningAction("thread-2", ph)); executorService.submit(new LongRunningAction("thread-3", ph));if
ph.arriveAndAwaitAdvance();is called before all of theLongRunningActions are initialized, won’t it proceed before it is supposed to?Your analysis looks right to me. If this were mine I’d initialize all three before submitting any.