Welch, Peter H. (1997) Java threads in the light of occam/CSP. In: Bakkers, A.W.P., ed. Parallel Programming and Java. Concurrent Systems Engineering Series, 50 . I O S Press, Amsterdam, p. 282. ISBN 90-5199-336-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:18033)
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Abstract
Java provides support for parallel computing through a model that is built into the language itself. However, the designers of Java chose to be fairly conservative and settled for the concepts of threads and monitors. Monitors were developed by Tony Hoare in the early 1970s as a structured way of using semaphores to control access to shared resources. Hoare moved away from this, in the late 1970s, to develop the theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). One reason for this was that the semantics of monitors and threads are not WYSIWIG, so that designing robust parallel algorithms at this level is seriously hard.
| Item Type: | Book section |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
| Depositing User: | T.J. Sango |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2009 14:03 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 09:53 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18033 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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