This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Use Thread Pools Correctly: Keep Tasks Short and Nonblocking”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
… But the thread pool is a leaky abstraction. That is, the pool hides a lot of details from us, but to use it effectively we do need to be aware of some things [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Effective Concurrency: Use Thread Pools Correctly – Keep Tasks Short and Nonblocking
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A Wryly Repurposed Quotation
Posted in Friday Thoughts on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my travels, I recently came across this empty store with an almost-empty box beside the front door. As seen in Monterey, CA:
Evidently some character had also noticed the empty store with its empty box, and decided to do a little walk-by wry economic commentary via repurposed quotation. Zooming on the once-empty box:
