double checked locking - objective c

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Published on 2010-06-07T14:43:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 14:52 UTC
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I realised double checked locking is flawed in java due to the memory model, but that is usually associated with the singleton pattern and optimizing the creation of the singleton.

What about under this case in objective-c:

I have a boolean flag to determine if my application is streaming data or not. I have 3 methods, startStreaming, stopStreaming, streamingDataReceived and i protect them from multiple threads using:

- (void) streamingDataReceived:(StreamingData *)streamingData {
    if (self.isStreaming) {
        @synchronized(self) {
            if (self.isStreaming) {

- (void) stopStreaming {
    if (self.isStreaming) {
        @synchronized(self) {
            if (self.isStreaming) {

- (void) startStreaming:(NSArray *)watchlistInstrumentData {
    if (!self.isStreaming) {
        @synchronized(self) {
            if (!self.isStreaming) {

Is this double check uneccessary? Does the double check have similar problems in objective-c as in java? What are the alternatives to this pattern (anti-pattern).

Thanks

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