[Vm-dev] Where to get Monitor implementation based on primitives?

[Ben Coman]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Denis,
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> On Jan 17, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi.
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> 2016-01-17 17:47 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com>:
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>> I suspect a problem since it does not check it is the owningProcess
>> before setting owningProcess to nil.  AFAIK, only the owning process
>> should be able to release the mutex.
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> Yes. But it is not mutex. It is more abstract thing which allow implement mutex and other concurrency stuff (like ReadWriteLock). That's why I rename CriticalSection to LockOwnership in my proposals.

I find LockOwnership a bit cumbersome.  I guess you don't want just
Lock but to include the sense of ownership.  Would you consider one of
these...
* Locker   "A person or thing that does an action indicated by the
root verb" [1]
* Lockee   "Less commonly added to verbs to form words meaning a
person or thing that is the subject of that verb (ie, who or that does
an action), especially where a passive sense of the verb is implied."
[2]
* OwnLock
* OwnedLock

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-er#Suffix
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ee#Suffix

cheers -ben

> It only contains primitives and no high level methods like #critical:.
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> Sounds good.  Now would be a good time to submit your preferred versions of the primitives which answer the values that make for more natural variable names.  I'm about to release new VMs, including a 64-bit  Spur JIT.  So I could include the new primitives.
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