Interrupting snapshots and the Java[superscript TM] size() method

The Java[superscript TM] developers kit requires a size() operation for all objects, tracking the number of elements in the object. Unfortunately, the best known solution, available in the Java concurrency package, has a blocking concurrent implementation that does not scale. This paper presents a h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Afek, Yehuda, Tzafrir, Moran, Shavit, Nir N.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101051
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4552-2414