Re: Seeming Non-determinism in Java Programs

On Sunday 06 April 2008 18:27, Endre Stølsvik wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > This is perplexing to me. How can multiple independent (but
> > identical) invocations of the JVM produce highly varying
> > executions?
> >
> > My first question is this: What phenomenon / dynamics can cause
> > this sort of behavior? While I'm open to the possibility that it is
> > a bug (permit me to say a _subtle_ bug), I'm experienced enough to
> > know the proper implementation of equals() and hashCode(), e.g.
>
> Something to do with concurrency and order (if you have more than one
> thread in operation),

Nope. This a single-threaded program. Multiple identical invocations of 
the JVM (from the command line) produce wildly varying results.


> ...
>
> Endre.


Randall Schulz

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