Session 8a

If a memory location is not thread-local and not synchronized, it needs to be...

• Mutable (can change content)

• Immutable (can't change content)

• There's no problem, we can do whatever we want

Thread-local memory needs synchronization.

• True

• False

The compiler will never reorder memory accesses.

• True

• False

Which instructions will and won't be reordered depends on the hardware.

• True

• False

One of the main functions of the Java Memory Model is to...

• improve the speed of memory accesses

• increase the storage capacity of a computer

• restrict allowable outcomes of programs

• expand allowable outcomes of programs

If there is a cycle in our state space diagram...

• We are using a while loop

• There is a livelock

• Our program always terminates

• Our code suffers from starvation