Version 29 of Concurrency concepts

Updated 2013-03-24 20:20:57 by pooryorick

Summary

Concurrency is concept of simultaneous execution of computational tasks.

See Also

chords

CSP

co-routines

continuation

flow-based programming

event-driven programming

generators

processes

latent function

microthreads

monitors

object-bound mutexes

asynchronous methods

tasks

semaphores

threads

weightless threads

guarded methods

iterators

A Thread-Safe Message Queue

distributed computing

parallel processing

grid services

Reference

Concurrency ,Wikipedia

Concurrency for grown-ups by Cameron Laird, developerWorks, 2002-08-15

Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading and Hyperthreading , by Jon Stokes

claims to be mostly about (rather specific) hardware, in fact its readability and confident accuracy recommend it for those in search of a more general introduction to operating system-level concurrency.

Description

Tclonians typically focus on maintainability and related development issues. For a hard-core performance perspective on concurrency, see "The C10K problem" The C10K Problem .

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