On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:16 +0100, Ron Blaschke wrote: > The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." > [1] He starts with "The biggest sea change in software development since > the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency."
Perhaps have a read of: http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/AES/S17draft.pod Two non-traditional methods of concurrency are discussed; * atomic blocks - an atomic { } guard around a block that, assuming the block performs no I/O, will guarantee atomic success or failure of the block. * co-routines - essentially co-operative multitasking between 'blocking' threads that actually switch tasks when they block (or yield). There is also some stuff there on other types of timesharing and multiprocessing - Threads, Processes and Multiplexing (like Ruby). Sam.
