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Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading?

From Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading?
Date 2012-06-16 14:39 +0200
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On 16.06.2012 07:27, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

> It's possible to roll your own concurrency classes using compare-and-set
> or safe races.  Custom code with reduced functionality can beat the
> general JVM classes by a lot.

That sounds interesting: please share concrete examples where you were 
able to beat std lib "by a lot".

> Minimizing thread interaction in high-performance code helps even more.
> Writing to shared memory results in a hardware stall to sync CPU caches.
> The bigger the system, the worse those cache syncs are.

Well, that's one of the basic principles Doug Lea calls "thread 
confinement".  Not sharing is always more efficient than sharing when it 
comes to multiple threads.

Kind regards

	robert


-- 
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Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-15 17:33 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-15 15:55 -0700
    Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-15 18:12 -0500
      Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-15 16:31 -0700
        Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-15 20:00 -0500
        Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-16 14:39 +0200
          Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-16 12:13 -0700
      Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-16 00:57 -0700
  Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-15 15:57 -0700
    Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-15 18:12 -0500
  Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-15 20:19 -0400
    Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-15 19:59 -0500
      Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-15 21:37 -0400
        Controlling the Garbage Collector "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-16 11:51 -0500
          Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-16 14:24 -0400
            Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-16 12:24 -0700
              Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-16 13:14 -0700
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-23 13:36 +0200
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-23 15:39 +0200
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-16 14:34 -0700
          Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-18 04:32 -0700
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-25 13:49 -0400
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-25 20:41 +0200
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-26 06:46 -0700
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-26 13:07 -0400
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-26 22:28 +0200
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-06-26 23:49 +0000
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-27 13:41 -0700
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-06-29 23:04 +0000
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Highway to Hell <HtH49439112@gmail.com> - 2012-06-27 16:53 -0400
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Highway to Hell <HtH49439112@gmail.com> - 2012-06-27 16:54 -0400
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-27 11:45 -0700
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Highway to Hell <HtH49439112@gmail.com> - 2012-06-27 16:55 -0400
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-27 02:06 +0000
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-06-27 16:34 +0000
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-06-27 11:45 -0500
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-02 11:21 +0200
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-26 13:52 -0700
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                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-26 16:48 -0700
              Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-21 15:15 -0700
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 15:33 -0700
                Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-06-21 21:24 -0500
              Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-21 15:23 -0700
        Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-17 15:49 +0200
    Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-16 01:00 -0700
      Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-16 01:04 -0700
  Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-16 04:03 +0200
  Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2012-06-15 22:27 -0700
    Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-16 14:39 +0200
      Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2012-06-18 19:37 -0700
        Re: Recommendations for Lightweight Threading? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-19 07:46 -0700

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