Lately I've been reading up on concurrency.
I started out with Allen B. Downeys Little book of semaphores, went on to Edward A. Lee's classic article The problem with threads, which has the most fantastic language. Stumbled upon Brian Goetz talk from InfoQ on Concurrency: Past and Present and found a link to the golden article The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software by Herb Sutter, which depicts today computing environments.
Made a mental note on reading the chapter Beautiful Concurrency by Simon Peyton Jones in the Book Beautiful Code and concluded the brain walk with the new article in ACM Queue Real-World concurrency by Bryan Cantrill and Jeff Bonwick. But first read Bryans excellent blog-entry explaining the background for the article.
Unfortunately I don't have the answer to the classic question - so I leave the question up to you:
Is the free lunch over? Or is the buffet bigger and cheaper than ever?
I was wondering if you have copyright protection on your "Free Lunch" picture (which I love, btw) and if so, would you grant me permission to use it on a Facebook local event that I am inviting friends to come to?
Thanks.
Posted by Ken Dibble on April 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM CEST #
Ditto, same question as Ken Dibble. I would like to use that graphic. Maybe post an answer here if so. Thanks!
Posted by Edgar on June 23, 2009 at 11:23 PM CEST #