From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,616d896244e78bc0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!API-DIGITAL.COM-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: McKae Technologies Subject: The Problem With Threads Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:06:12 -0600 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com X-Trace: e767245b6bf14e69ff1c622020 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8457 Date: 2007-01-23T20:06:12-06:00 List-Id: 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. -- Marc A. Criley -- McKae Technologies -- www.mckae.com -- Avatox - DTraq - XIA - XML EZ Out