Questions tagged [thread-confinement]
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When and how should I use a ThreadLocal variable?
When should I use a ThreadLocal variable?
How is it used?
Sasha
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Thread Confinement
I am reading Java Concurrency in Practice and kind of confused with the thread confinement concept. The book says that
When an object is confined to a thread, such usage is automatically thread-safe even if the confined object itself is not
So…

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Is there a elegant way to confine a class to a thread?
I have a class which I want to confine to a thread. To be precise I want it's void returning methods to be accessed on a certain thread or serial queue created by the class privately. To acheive this I looked at the NSManagedObjectContext API as a…

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