[dmd-concurrency] draft 1

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> Le 2010-01-08 à 19:23, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit :
> 
>> In the following days I'll send a number of chapter fragments for
>> review. They are incomplete, but I expect the finished sections to
>> be in reviewable form.
>> 
>> I'd appreciate feedback (send it to this list). The first section
>> is complete, the second is unfinished. Let me know!
> 
> I like it a lot. :-)
> 
> It's good to make the link with the physical constrains of today's
> processors. And it's interesting to see why different books can
> suggest very different strategies. That makes good introduction to
> concurrency in general.
> 
> One thing you might want to do is define "contention" somewhere
> before or soon after mentioning it as one assumption of Effective
> Java second edition.

Thanks. Good point - I need to define terms thoroughly before using 
them. By the way, how would you guys define a thread?

Andrei