Episode 44: Interview Brian Goetz and David Holmes

Episode 44: Interview Brian Goetz and David Holmes

This is another episode on concurrency. We talk to two experts in the field, Brian Goetz and David Holmes about aspects of concurrency we hadn't really covered before. We start out by discussing liveness and safety and then continue to talk about synchronizers (latches, barriers, semaphores) as well as the importance of agreeing on protocols when developing concurrent applications. We then talked about thread confinement as a way of building thread-safe programs, as well as using functional programming and immutable data. The next set of topics covers various ways of how compilers can optimize the performance wrt. to concurrency, talking about techniques such as escape analysis as well as lock elision and coarsening. We then covered how to test concurrent programs and the consequences of the Java memory model on concurrency. We then went on to look at some more advanced topics, namely, lock-free programming and atomic variables. We also briefly discussed the idea of transactional memory. Finally, we looked at how better language support - specifically, a more declarative style of concurrent programming as e.g. in the Fortress language - can aid in improving the quality of concurrent programs.

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Episode 93: Lessons Learned From Architecture Reviews with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

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Episode 92: Introduction to Game Development with Oliver Jucknath

Episode 92: Introduction to Game Development with Oliver Jucknath

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Episode 91: Kevlin Henney on C++

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Episode 90: Product Line Engineering, Pt. 3, with Charles Krueger

Episode 90: Product Line Engineering, Pt. 3, with Charles Krueger

In this episode Charles Krueger, a well-known member of the product line engineering community, talks about his long term experiences in the field. Charles is also the founder and CEO of a company tha...

22 Mar 200836min

Episode 89: Joe Armstrong on Erlang

Episode 89: Joe Armstrong on Erlang

In this Episode we're talking about Erlang with its creator Joe Armstrong. We started by looking at the history of the Erlang language and why it is so relevant today. We then looked at Joe's approach...

12 Mar 200853min

Episode 88: The Singularity Research OS with Galen Hunt

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In this episode we talk to Galen Hunt about the Singularity research OS. Galen is the head of Microsoft's OS Research Group and, together with a team of about 30 other researches, has built Singularit...

2 Mar 200846min

Episode 87: Software Components

Episode 87: Software Components

In this episode, Michael and Markus talk about software components. We first looked at a couple of attempts at defining what a component is. We then provided our own definition that will be used in th...

21 Feb 200859min

Episode 86: Interview Dave Thomas

Episode 86: Interview Dave Thomas

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