I agree, but it is still and interesting article to read. ;-)
Sreedhar
According to Bill Pugh :
>
> At 6:58 AM -0400 6/30/99, V.C. Sreedhar wrote:
> >
> >Per Brinch Hansen in SIGPLAN Notice Vol 34, No. 4, April 1999
> >has written an article on Java's insecure parallelism....
> >I believe this article will be of interest to this forum
>
> It isn't really that much of immediate interest. The article is more
> of a complaint about the design of Java's language support for
> parallelism. In Hansen's article, he argues (essentially) that all
> methods should be synchronized and the all fields should be private.
> This would eliminate unsynchronized access to shared variables
> (although it could raise significant performance and deadlock
> problems).
>
> But at any rate, it isn't the issue of the moment. We are stuck with
> the broad outlines of Java's thread and synchronization semantics.
>
> I think a very interesting research question for future languages is
> the design of threading and synchronization constructs. I expect our
> experience over the coming years with millions of Java programmers
> pulling their hair out over nondeterministic and surprising thread
> behavior may provide some guidance.
>
> Bill Pugh
>
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