Concurrency: Beyond Multiple Cores
Concurrency is about a great deal more than just exploiting parallelism—used correctly, it allows your software to be responsive, fault tolerant, efficient, and simple.
Concurrent Software for a Concurrent World
The world is concurrent, and so should your software be if it wants to interact effectively.
Your mobile phone can play music, talk to the network, and pay attention to your finger poking its screen, all at the same time. Your IDE checks the syntax of your code in the background while you continue to type. The flight system in an airplane simultaneously monitors sensors, displays information to the pilot, obeys commands, and moves control surfaces.
Concurrency is the key to responsive systems. ...
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