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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks

by Paul Butcher
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 12m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

Threads and locks are little more than a formalization of what the underlying hardware actually does. That’s both their great strength and their great weakness.

Because they’re so simple, almost all languages support them in one form or another, and they impose very few constraints on what can be achieved through their use. But they also provide almost no help to the poor programmer, making programs very difficult to get right in the first place and even more difficult to maintain.

We’ll cover threads-and-locks programming in Java, but the principles apply to any language that supports threads. On day 1 we’ll cover the basics of multithreaded code in Java, the primary pitfalls you’ll encounter, ...

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