What are the real advantages that D offers in multithreading?

nbro via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 28 14:38:19 PST 2016


On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 11:53:48 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:44 +0000, nbro via Digitalmars-d wrote:

>
> It should be pointed out that anyone using the synchronized 
> keyword anywhere in Java code is doing concurrent and parallel 
> programming wrong. If they are using synchronized in single 
> threaded programming well, then…
>
> The issue here is Java monitors, which are massively 
> overweight, and have been since 1994. Indeed the whole 
> wait/notify system is a serious problem. Sadly it took 20 years 
> for people at the heart of Java development to finally admit 
> this in (semi-)public. Doug Lea's, Brian Goetz, and others have 
> over the last 10 years been making things better. A lot better.
>
> So good concurrent and parallel Java eshews synchronized, wait 
> and notify, and employs one or more of the thread safe parallel 
> data structure, e.g. ConcurrentHashMap, the futures related 
> things, or more usually now Streams.
>
> synchronized, wait and notify along with the lock and monitors 
> should be deprecated and removed.
>
> Sadly as we know nothing that is deprecated ever gets removed 
> from Java.

I don't understand why you say that everyone that uses 
synchronized is doing bad concurrent programming. That's not 
correct, if you know how to use it. Also, I don't understand why 
also lock and monitors should be removed. How would you write 
then multithreaded programs?


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