Comments on: Books: Java Concurrency In Practice http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/books-java-concurrency-in-practice.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sigma http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/books-java-concurrency-in-practice.html/comment-page-1#comment-3095 sigma Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:33:57 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1088#comment-3095 Looked at the book. It seems terribly elementary, even trivial, and nothing like powerful enough for serious work or anywhere near up to date. E.g., the book seems to emphasize 'thread-safe' objects: That's just baby talk, is needed but solves only the first trivial problems and quickly is not nearly enough. I saw no hint of monotone locking protocols, deadlock detection, deadlock resolution, or transactional integrity. In our work in production multi-processing (over 1000 processors), multi-threaded (many threads per processor), high-performance, real-time, dynamic (object hierarchy fully free to change during production execution), active (object methods could execute on their own due to messages, timer pops, etc.), object-oriented software technology 15 years ago, we depended heavily on just these techniques. They have long been just crucial and still are. Concurrency is a solid subject in computer science, and some of the best algorithms there are just crucial to success with solid software with high concurrency and multi-processing. Looked at the book. It seems terribly elementary, even
trivial, and nothing like powerful enough for serious work or
anywhere near up to date. E.g., the book seems to emphasize
‘thread-safe’ objects: That’s just baby talk, is needed but
solves only the first trivial problems and quickly is not
nearly enough.

I saw no hint of monotone locking protocols, deadlock
detection, deadlock resolution, or transactional integrity.
In our work in production multi-processing (over 1000
processors), multi-threaded (many threads per processor),
high-performance, real-time, dynamic (object hierarchy fully
free to change during production execution), active (object
methods could execute on their own due to messages, timer
pops, etc.), object-oriented software technology 15 years ago,
we depended heavily on just these techniques. They have long
been just crucial and still are.

Concurrency is a solid subject in computer science, and some
of the best algorithms there are just crucial to success with
solid software with high concurrency and multi-processing.

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