[Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency (original) (raw)

Bruce Eckel BruceEckel-Python3234 at mailblocks.com
Thu Oct 13 19:10:03 CEST 2005

I don't know of anything that exists. There is an upcoming book that may help:

Java Concurrency in Practice, by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and Doug Lea (Addison-Wesley 2006).

I have had assistance from some of the authors, but don't know if it introduces the concepts from the research paper. Estimated publication is February.

However, you might get something from Scott Meyer's analysis of the concurrency issues surrounding the double-checked locking algorithm: http://www.aristeia.com/Papers/DDJ_Jul_Aug_2004_revised.pdf

Thursday, October 13, 2005, 8:36:21 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

Bruce Eckel <BruceEckel-Python3234 at mailblocks.com> writes:

Not only are there significant new library components in java.util.concurrent in J2SE5, but perhaps more important is the new memory model that deals with issues that are (especially) revealed in multiprocessor environments. The new memory model represents new work in the computer science field; apparently the original paper is written by Ph.D.s and is a bit too theoretical for the normal person to follow. But the smart threading guys studied this and came up with the new Java memory model -- so that volatile, for example, which didn't work quite right before, does now. This is part of J2SE5, and this work is being incorporated into the upcoming C++0x.

Do you have a link that explains this sort of thing for the layman?

Cheers, mwh

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