Among
all the available options to safely and correctly manage shared state
in concurrent programs, I've selected the concept of Agents for my today's post....
0 replies - 2317 views - 09/15/09 by vaclav in News
Multi-core computers have shifted the burden of software performance from chip designers to software architects and developers. In order to gain the full...
6 replies - 9815 views - 06/23/09 by HFadeel in Articles
Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia, recently brought up an interesting topic
on unifying actors and objects. Talking about Scala and his disliking
towards Scala's...
2 replies - 3976 views - 04/13/09 by Debasish Ghosh in News
I've seen it again. One more claim that "Parallel programming is
hard" and then the claimant launching into some complex and convoluted
solution to...
7 replies - 4813 views - 03/31/09 by claybreshears in News
The JSR-166y, which I described earlier in the post dedicated to the fork/join functionality
is really amazing in how nicely it shields developers from dealing...
0 replies - 6774 views - 08/26/08 by vaclav in Articles
Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...
3 replies - 12770 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
This book is very well organized and divided into four sections, starting from fundamentals like thread safety, atomicity, race conditions, locking, liveliness and goes on to concurrent collections...
3 replies - 5634 views - 08/06/08 by javasrini in Book Reviews
In theory everyone knows Hash Map is not Thread Safe and it shouldn’t be used in multi Threaded applications. But still people come out with their own...
6 replies - 5919 views - 06/30/08 by Pavitar Singh in Articles
Reentrance lockout is a situation similar to deadlock and
nested monitor lockout.
3 replies - 3203 views - 06/14/08 by Jakob Jenkov in News
Jakob has done a great series on Java Concurrency - check out the first 14 articles at his blog. Going forward, we're delighted to announce that you'll also...
19 replies - 8766 views - 06/09/08 by Jakob Jenkov in News
The JavaONE technical sessions have been made available with featured videos and PDFs of the technical sessions, helping those of us who missed the conference...
2 replies - 3824 views - 06/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
I stayed around in San Francisco for one more day after JavaOne, in order to attend the Scala liftoff. The liftoff was an open space style conference (which...
0 replies - 1709 views - 05/16/08 by twleung in News
Brian's talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few...
2 replies - 3992 views - 05/07/08 by Alex Miller in News
A classic problem in concurrency is that of the Dining Philosophers, which examines the issue of deadlock and solutions involving lock ordering and lock...
4 replies - 5544 views - 02/12/08 by Alex Miller in News
Java 5 introduced many new concurrency primitives and collections, and this post is going to look at two classes that can be used to coordinate threads:...
3 replies - 6613 views - 02/07/08 by Alex Miller in News
