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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