class Noop { // Simplistic low-quality Marsaglia Shift-XOR pseudo-random number generator. // Bijective // Cycle length for non-zero values is 4G-1. // 0 is absorbing and should be avoided -- fixed point. // The returned value is typically masked to produce a positive value. static volatile int Ticket = 0 ; public static int nextRandom( int x ) { if (x == 0) { // reseed the PRNG // Ticket is accessed infrequently and does not constitute a coherence hot-spot. // Note that we use a non-atomic racy increment -- the race is rare and benign. // If the race is a concern switch to an AtomicInteger. // In addition accesses to the RW volatile global "Ticket" variable are not // (readily) predictable at compile-time so the JIT will not be able to elide // nextRandom() invocations. x = ++Ticket ; if (x == 0) x = 1 ; } x ^= x << 6; x ^= x >>> 21; x ^= x << 7; return x ; } } class Monitor { private int x; public volatile Boolean go = false; public volatile Boolean go2 = false; public synchronized void call() { if ( x == 0 ) System.out.println(x); x = Noop.nextRandom( x ); } Monitor() { x = Noop.nextRandom( x ); } } class T extends Thread { Monitor m; public void run() { m.go2 = true; while ( ! m.go ); while ( m.go ) { m.call(); } } T( Monitor m ) { this.m = m; } } public class JavaThread { static int x = 2; static private long times = Long.parseLong("10000000"); public static void call( Monitor m ) throws InterruptedException { x = Noop.nextRandom( x ); m.go = true; //while ( ! m.go2 ); for ( long i = 0; i < times; i += 1 ) { m.call(); x = Noop.nextRandom( x ); } m.go = false; } public static void InnerMain() throws InterruptedException { Monitor m = new Monitor(); T t = new T( m ); t.start(); long start = System.nanoTime(); call( m ); long end = System.nanoTime(); System.out.println( (end - start) / times ); t.join(); } public static void main( String[] args ) throws InterruptedException { if ( args.length > 2 ) System.exit( 1 ); if ( args.length == 2 ) { times = Long.parseLong(args[1]); } for ( int i = Integer.parseInt("5"); --i >= 0 ; ) { InnerMain(); // Thread.sleep(2000); // 2 seconds x = Noop.nextRandom( x ); } if ( x == 0 ) System.out.println(x); } } // Local Variables: // // tab-width: 4 // // End: //