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A surprise with mutexes and reference counts [LWN.net] edit / delete

A nice example of a concurrency bug in Linux resulting from an interaction between mutexes and atomics.

to ag0803 bug concurrency linux mutex ... on 13 December 2013

Living without Pointers: Bringing Value Semantics to Object-Oriented Parallel Programming edit / delete

Coming at mobile data from the other direction.

to concurrency language-design mobile oo parallel programming splash ... on 01 December 2013

Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms | MemSQL Blog | The Real-Time Analytics Platform edit / delete

Both in terms of correctness and performance.

to algorithm concurrency debugging lockfree performance ... on 24 October 2013

Concurrent Revisions | Lambda the Ultimate edit / delete

"Concurrent Revisions are a distributed version control-like abstraction [1] for concurrently mutable state that requires clients to specify merge functions that make fork-join deterministic, and so make concurrent programs inherently composable." That is, it's a shared data strategy based on version control ideas, which is kind of neat.

to concurrency language-design ... on 24 October 2013

FineGrainMPI - NssWiki edit / delete

MPI with a lightweight process scheduler. This was presented at CPA 2013 -- looks like it'll be worth playing with.

to concurrency mpi scheduler software to-package ... on 24 October 2013

majek/lua-channels edit / delete

"Go-style channels in Lua" -- i.e. CSP channels done with an implementation of Go's channel algorithm on top of Lua's coroutines. Neat.

to channels concurrency csp go lua scheduling ... on 08 September 2013

Home | Intel OpenMP* Runtime edit / delete

Free software.

to concurrency intel openmp parallel software ... on 07 June 2013

HOWTO: using gprof with multithreaded applications edit / delete

Shim to set up gprof's timers correctly across multiple threads.

to concurrency gprof profiling pthreads threads ... on 15 April 2013

How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL [LWN.net] edit / delete

Specifically because a concurrency change made a big difference to PostgreSQL's internal scheduler. Has anyone tried benchmarking CCSP/TBB/etc. across multiple Linux versions?

to benchmarking concurrency linux performance ... on 13 October 2012

Portable Stackless Coroutines in One* Header « C++Next edit / delete

A neat switch-based approach in Boost.

to c++ concurrency coroutines ... on 07 October 2012