[infinispan-dev] ClockService

[Galder Zamarreño]

On Jan 29, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Manik Surtani <msurtani at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> On 29 Jan 2013, at 17:17, Bela Ban <bban at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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 ?
> 
> No, if you have a separate maint thread that updates a reusable currentTimeMillis value.
> 
> Do you use nanoTime() a lot then?  Because that too is inefficient (as per the Oracle blog) …

^ Btw, that blog post is from 2005, so things might have moved on since then...

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