[infinispan-dev] ClockService

[Bela Ban]

On 1/29/13 5:25 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> Glad you started work on that :)
>
> Any currentTimeMillis() even today will blow away your cache line and
> probably trigger a context switch.

I understand the context switch (in general, it's not recommended anyway 
to invoke a system call in synchronized code), but I fail to see why 
this would blow the cache line. Are you referring to the cached Date 
value here ?


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