How are lazy val class variables implemented in Scala 2.10?

Question

This answer to What's the (hidden) cost of Scala's lazy val? shows how they were implemented in Scala 2.7. But as the comments say, this must have changed since then, so I'm curious, what's the current (2.10) implementation of class lazy val variables?

Answer 1

Update Scala 2.12.1 (Dec. 2016, three years later).

After PR 5294 (Fields phase fully expands lazy vals and modules), you can read in commit 743f0d2:

Lazy val without local.

Now synchronized is erased specially to avoid boxing, we can drop that work around.

Note that this does add an extra cast and getter call on the slow path, but that likely doesn't matter.

class C { def foo = {lazy val x = {println("a"); "A" }; x } }

becomes:

def foo(): String = {
  lazy <artifact> val x$lzy: scala.runtime.LazyRef[String] = new scala.runtime.LazyRef[String]();

  <artifact> private def x$lzycompute(): String =
    x$lzy.synchronized[String]{
      if (x$lzy.initialized())
        x$lzy.value() // NOTE: gets an `.asInstanceOf[String]` after erasure
      else
        {
          x$lzy.value_=({
            scala.Predef.println("a");
            "A"
          });
          x$lzy.initialized_=(true);
          x$lzy.value() // NOTE: gets an `.asInstanceOf[String]` after erasure
        }
    }

  lazy def x(): String =
    if (x$lzy.initialized())
      x$lzy.value() // NOTE: gets an `.asInstanceOf[String]` after erasure
    else
      x$lzycompute();

  x()
}

Answer 2

Compiled this with scala 2.10.2:

class Foo {

  lazy val bar = math.pow(5, 3)

}

Then decompiled the result with JD-GUI:

import scala.math.package.;
import scala.reflect.ScalaSignature;

@ScalaSignature(bytes="\006\001e1A!\001\002\001\013\t\031ai\\8\013\003\r\tq\001P3naRLhh\001\001\024\005\0011\001CA\004\013\033\005A!\"A\005\002\013M\034\027\r\\1\n\005-A!AB!osJ+g\rC\003\016\001\021\005a\"\001\004=S:LGO\020\013\002\037A\021\001\003A\007\002\005!A!\003\001EC\002\023\0051#A\002cCJ,\022\001\006\t\003\017UI!A\006\005\003\r\021{WO\0317f\021!A\002\001#A!B\023!\022\001\0022be\002\002")
public class Foo {

    private double bar;
    private volatile boolean bitmap$0;

    private double bar$lzycompute() {
        synchronized (this) { 
            if (!this.bitmap$0) { 
                this.bar = package..MODULE$.pow(5.0D, 3.0D); 
                this.bitmap$0 = true; 
            } 
            return this.bar; 
        }  
    } 

    public double bar() { 
        return this.bitmap$0 ? this.bar : bar$lzycompute(); 
    }

}

Edit - Here's what it looks like for three fields:

class Foo {

  lazy val a = math.pow(5, 1)
  lazy val b = math.pow(5, 2)
  lazy val c = math.pow(5, 3)

}

Decompiled:

import scala.math.package.;
import scala.reflect.ScalaSignature;

@ScalaSignature(bytes="\006\001\0052A!\001\002\001\013\t\031ai\\8\013\003\r\tq\001P3naRLhh\001\001\024\005\0011\001CA\004\013\033\005A!\"A\005\002\013M\034\027\r\\1\n\005-A!AB!osJ+g\rC\003\016\001\021\005a\"\001\004=S:LGO\020\013\002\037A\021\001\003A\007\002\005!A!\003\001EC\002\023\0051#A\001b+\005!\002CA\004\026\023\t1\002B\001\004E_V\024G.\032\005\t1\001A\t\021)Q\005)\005\021\021\r\t\005\t5\001A)\031!C\001'\005\t!\r\003\005\035\001!\005\t\025)\003\025\003\t\021\007\005\003\005\037\001!\025\r\021\"\001\024\003\005\031\007\002\003\021\001\021\003\005\013\025\002\013\002\005\r\004\003")
public class Foo {

    private double a;
    private double b;
    private double c;

    private volatile byte bitmap$0;

    private double a$lzycompute() {
        synchronized (this) {
            if ((byte)(this.bitmap$0 & 0x1) == 0) {
                this.a = package..MODULE$.pow(5.0D, 1.0D); 
                this.bitmap$0 = ((byte)(this.bitmap$0 | 0x1)); 
            } 
            return this.a;
        }  
    } 

    private double b$lzycompute() { 
        synchronized (this) {
            if ((byte)(this.bitmap$0 & 0x2) == 0) {
                this.b = package..MODULE$.pow(5.0D, 2.0D); 
                this.bitmap$0 = ((byte)(this.bitmap$0 | 0x2)); 
            } 
            return this.b; 
        }  
    } 

    private double c$lzycompute() { 
        synchronized (this) {
            if ((byte)(this.bitmap$0 & 0x4) == 0) {
                this.c = package..MODULE$.pow(5.0D, 3.0D); 
                this.bitmap$0 = ((byte)(this.bitmap$0 | 0x4)); 
            } 
            return this.c;
        }
    }

    public double a() {
        return (byte)(this.bitmap$0 & 0x1) == 0 ? a$lzycompute() : this.a;
    }

    public double b() { 
        return (byte)(this.bitmap$0 & 0x2) == 0 ? b$lzycompute() : this.b; 
    } 

    public double c() { 
        return (byte)(this.bitmap$0 & 0x4) == 0 ? c$lzycompute() : this.c;
    }

}