I am working on Android projects which involve the lot of concurrent programming and I am going to implement some custom inter-threads communication stuff (the one from java.util.concurent are not well suited for my purposes).
The concurrent programming is not easy in general but with Dalvik it seems to be even harder. To get the correct code you should know some specific things and that where problem arise with Dalvik. I just can't find a detailed documentation about the Dalvik VM. Most Android resources (even the developer.android.com focused on platform API and doesn't provide any deep information about some non-trivial (or low-level) things).
For example, to which edition of Java Language Specification the Dalvik VM is conform ? Depending of answer the treatment of volatile variables are different and affect the any concurrent code which use the volatile variables.
There are already some related questions:
and some answers by fadden are very useful but I still want to get more detailed and complete understanding of matter in question.
So below a raw questions I am interesting in (I will update the list if necessary as answers for previous questions will arrive):
- Where to find the details about the Dalvik VM which may provide the answers for questions below ?
- To which edition of Java Language Specification the Dalvik VM is conform to ?
- If answer to (2) is "third edition" then how complete the Dalviks's support of Java Memory Model defied in this specification ? And especially how complete the