The process of writing large parallel programs is complicated by the need to specify both the parallel behaviour of the program and the algorithm that is to be used to compute its result.
In an earlier post Over on the Twisted blog, Duncan McGreggor has asked us to expand a bit on where we think Twisted may be lacking in it’s support for concurrency. I’m afraid this has turned into a meandering essay, since I needed to reference so muc
I participated in the design and development of a couple of concurrency libraries for shared-memory multiprocessors long before such machines were popular. So when I started using java.util.concurrent I was already somewhat comfortable with the concepts.
The C++ standardization committee is hard at work standardizing threads for the next version of C++. Some members recently met to discuss the issues, and The C++ Source was there. Read on to learn what the world’s leading experts on concurrency are plan