class Monitor { public static volatile Boolean go = false; public static volatile Boolean next = false; } class Signaller extends Thread { Monitor m; Signaller(Monitor m) { this.m = m; } public void run() { Monitor.go = true; while( Monitor.go ) { synchronized(this.m) { Monitor.next = false; this.m.notify(); } while( ! Monitor.next && Monitor.go ); // spin until woken } } } public class JavaThread { // 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 ; private 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 ; } static int x = 2; static private int times = Integer.parseInt("1000000"); public static void helper( Monitor m ) throws InterruptedException { for(int i = 1; i <= times; i += 1) { m.wait(); // relase monitor lock m.next = true; } } public static void InnerMain() throws InterruptedException { Monitor m = new Monitor(); long start, end; Signaller s = new Signaller(m); synchronized(m) { s.start(); while( ! Monitor.go ) { // waiter must start first Thread.yield(); } start = System.nanoTime(); helper( m ); end = System.nanoTime(); } Monitor.go = false; s.join(); System.out.println( (end - start) / times); } public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { if ( args.length > 2 ) System.exit( 1 ); if ( args.length == 2 ) { times = Integer.parseInt(args[1]); } for (int n = Integer.parseInt("5"); --n >= 0 ; ) { InnerMain(); Thread.sleep(2000); // 2 seconds x = nextRandom(x); } if ( x == 0 ) System.out.println(x); } } // Local Variables: // // tab-width: 4 // // End: //