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JDK 5.0: More Flexible, Scalable Locking

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-forward-to-the-path dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Multithreading and concurrency are nothing new, but one of the innovations of the Java language design was that it was the first mainstream programming language to incorporate a cross-platform threading model and formal memory model directly into the language specification. While this simplifies the development of platform-independent concurrent classes, it by no means makes writing concurrent classes trivial -- just easier."

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  1. Re:java first? by hoggy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ada's multi-threading support is about two orders of magnitude better than Java's as well. It was a source of extreme disappointment to me that years of concurrency research got boiled-down to the 'synchronized' keyword.

    Multi-threading is only hard because most languages have piss-poor support for multi-threading. I recommend to anyone that they go away and learn about Ada tasks and the select statement to see how it ought to be done.