Static Method Simultaneous and Multi-Thread

[Perry Terrance]

I have never thought about this regarding multi-thread and the static elements until now, but here it is:

I know that Static Methods are on the Heap while Threads on are on the Stack...

However, if we have two threads running - all accessing the same Static Method. Can the Static Method be executed AT THE EXACT SAME TIME by both Threads or is there usually an order of it depends which Thread (say for example Thread 1) - reaches that Static Method first - and the other (say - Thread 2) - can only execute using that same Static Method only once Thread 1 finishes using it?

[Winston Gutkowski]

Perry Terrance wrote:I know that Static Methods are on the Heap while Threads on are on the Stack...

They are? I thought all methods were defined only once, so it seems unlikely.

What is possible is that Thread objects are held in a stack of some kind - although it seems more likely that it would be a processing stack, not a memory one.

Can the Static Method be executed AT THE EXACT SAME TIME by both Threads or is there usually an order of it depends which Thread (say for example Thread 1) - reaches that Static Method first - and the other (say - Thread 2) - can only execute using that same Static Method only once Thread 1 finishes using it?

No, because if that was the case then you wouldn't have to synchronize static methods, would you? And you do.

The main difference between static methods and instance ones, AFAIK, is that the latter have an implicit this parameter. Other than that, they're just code.

HIH

Winston