[Haifux] Lecture proposal - high performance multi threaded programming

[Hai Zaar]

Yeah, great topic!
It will be great if this issue will be covered as well:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/79

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon at leon.nu> wrote:
> Great,
>  I'm totally in.
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>  > Abstract:
>  > With a bit of manual reading, anyone can learn how to create a program
>  > that has more than one thread of execution. This breaks down, very
>  > rapidly, however, as the inter-dependencies inside the program start to
>  > burden you down, to the point where you get race bugs that are close to
>  > impossible to find. Fixing those typically involve using the various
>  > locking mechanisms. The result is, more often than not, a program that
>  > both works much slower than the number of threads and processors would
>  > suggest it should, AND at the same time still has race conditions.
>  >
>  > This lecture will try to give rules relating to how to construct your
>  > program to begin with so that it will provide high performance, be
>  > maintainable (for some definition of maintainable), and be bug
>  > efficient. In other words, this lecture is about learning to think
>  > "multi-threaded". In fact, efficient enough multi-threaded design do not
>  > even need to have more than one thread of execution......
>  >
>  > All in favor say "aye".
>  >
>  > Shachar
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