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inactiveTopic Fixing Java Threading
started 10/11/2000; 1:01:15 PM - last post 10/11/2000; 1:11:45 PM
Chris Rathman - Fixing Java Threading  blueArrow
10/11/2000; 1:01:15 PM (reads: 533, responses: 1)
Fixing Java Threading
As long as we're on the subject of concurrency, coroutines, generators, and parallel processing in general, I thought I'd pass on the above link about threading problems within Java.

I find threading to be easier to program in Java than most other languages (save Erlang) but that doesn't mean that there's no room for improvement.
Posted to "" by Chris Rathman on 10/11/00; 1:03:28 PM

Ehud Lamm - Re: Fixing Java Threading  blueArrow
10/11/2000; 1:11:45 PM (reads: 557, responses: 0)
I find threading to be easier to program in Java than most other languages (save Erlang)

See these papers (#1,#2) that have a quite different view...


As a matter of fact the terms referring to concurrency are quite confusing. You wrote threading. But when we talk programming languages, should this really be distinct from concurrency, multitasking or any of the other terms used...?

I think not.

A useful distinction is between languages that encourage thinking in terms of processes, languages that provide lower level facilites, and language that lack concurrency entirely.