From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
Subject: The Problem With Threads
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:06:12 -0600
Date: 2007-01-23T20:06:12-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2007.01.24.02.05.54.304121@mckae.com> (raw)
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf
Interesting article. Basically the author says that the threading model
as employed in the most popular programming languages is a bad idea.
I pretty much agree with the paper, especially as I'm a proponent of
"coarse-grained" currency, as is well-supported by Ada tasking; versus
the fine-grained concurrency that I'm sensing is becoming the
"conventional wisdom" for where computer performance improvements are
going to have to come from next.
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