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Relaxed-Memory Concurrency edit / delete

"This page collects work by a group of people working to develop mathematically rigorous and usable semantics for multiprocessor programs." The gap between what the manual says, what the processor actually does, and what programmers can reason about -- lots of interesting stuff.

to architecture cmp202 concurrency cpu memory-models ... on 24 October 2018

50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs edit / delete

Mostly interesting to me for the concurrency problems.

to concurrency errors go language-design ... on 24 October 2018

Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), by C. A. R. Hoare (PDF Version) edit / delete

Online version of Tony Hoare's classic book.

to concurrency csp ... on 12 February 2018

fchan-go/writeup at master · google/fchan-go edit / delete

Finally trying to produce a better channel implementation for Go (bet they don't cite our paper though!).

to channel concurrency go process-oriented ... on 26 February 2017

Making the move from Scala to Go, and why we're not going back | Movio Blog edit / delete

POP being one reason: "It's not just the fact that channels and goroutines are cheaper in terms of resources [...] They are also easier to reason about when coding."

to concurrency go language-design process-oriented scala ... on 26 February 2017

libdill edit / delete

Lightweight fork-join concurrency in C.

to c concurrency coroutine lightweight-processes parallel ... on 14 October 2016

Lock-free programming for the masses · KC Sivaramakrishnan edit / delete

"We use take l_fork <*> take r_fork to atomically take both of the forks." Reagents in Multicore OCaml -- which are semantically (more or less?) equivalent to the multiway barriers that Neil implemented in CHP.

to concurrency multiway ocaml reagents synchronisation ... on 14 October 2016

Notes on concurrency bugs edit / delete

A couple of studies (now a few years old) looking at what kinds of concurrency bugs show up in real software.

to concurrency correctness debugging software-engineering ... on 28 August 2016

Visualizing Concurrency in Go · divan's blog edit / delete

The Go community reinventing what occam was doing in the 80s, again. I'm still not sure whether this is a positive thing or not.

to concurrency go visualisation ... on 28 February 2016

Nim Programming Language edit / delete

It's like Python but with a "parallel:" construct and a usage checker. Sounds familiar to anyone? :)

to concurrency language-design nim occam python ... on 22 March 2015