I'm making a program in java that races a few cars against each other. Each car is a separate thread.
When cars complete the race, each one all calls this method. I've tested the method at varying timer speeds, and it seems to work fine. But I do realize that each thread is accessing the variable carsComplete, sometimes at the exact same time (at least at the scope the date command is giving me).
So my question is: is this method thread-safe?
public static String completeRace()
{
Date accessDate = new Date();
System.out.println("Cars Complete: " + carsComplete + " Accessed at " + accessDate.toString());
switch(++carsComplete)
{
case 1: return "1st";
case 2: return "2nd";
case 3: return "3rd";
default: return carsComplete + "th";
}
}
No, you should be using something like java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
. Look at its getAndIncrement()
method.