Some common patterns of parallel programming

Now that we understand the power that these two models bring, one needs to be wary of the responsibility that this power brings forth. Typical abuse of concurrency and parallelism in the form of blanket code refactoring are often found counterproductive. Patterns become more pertinent in this paradigm, where developers push the limits of computing hardware.

 

Issues of races, deadlocks, livelocks, priority inversions, two-step dances, and lock convoys typically have no place in a sequential world, and avoiding such issues makes quality patterns all the more important

 
 --Stephen Toub

The authors wish to put in perspective the modelling/decomposition aspects of the problem, and illustrate the applicability ...

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