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Love vintage concurrency techniques :).
by CmonDev 12y ago
Love vintage concurrency techniques :).
- sz4kerto 12y agoThere's nothing vintage about them. Understanding these is crucial to understand how and why modern concurrency tools work. As I noted above in another comment, the issues that need mutexes or semaphores have never went away, only you might not realize that they're there. And please, don't come up with async/await, callback/continuation, node.js' async stuff. They are not a replacement for mutual exclusion, etc.
- icebraining 12y agoVintage doesn't mean obsolete.
- twic 12y agoVintage means "from a particularly good year, the like of which we have not seen for some time". Seems about right for an invention of EWD's.
- sigjuice 12y agoAre there concurrency techniques that aren't vintage?
- richm44 12y agoHow about hardware transactional memory like the new TSX instructions in the haswell chips.