[IGSTK-Developers] problem with threads???

[Kevin Cleary]

As noted by Ziv Yaniv from our group - see the May issue of IEEE Computer
(obviously not as good as the previous issue with our article ;)

 

It really advocates not using threads as they cause programs to be
nondeterministic, and very unsafe in many cases. This goes against the IGSTK
spirit of extreme safety.

 

I don't think we should change anything we did for the proposal - this is
just FYI

 

Kevin

 

The Problem with Threads 
Edward
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For concurrent programming to become mainstream, we must discard threads as
a programming model. Nondeterminism should be judiciously and carefully
introduced where needed, and it should be explicit in programs. 


 


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Index Terms- Programming paradigms, Threads, Nondeterminism, Design
patterns, Coordination languages

Citation:  Edward A. Lee, "The Problem with Threads," Computer, vol. 39,
no. 5,  pp. 33-42,  May,  2006. 

 

 

  

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ziv Yaniv [mailto:zivy at isis.imac.georgetown.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 11:45 PM
To: cleary at isis.georgetown.edu
Subject: misc

 

Hi Kevin,

 

I forgot to let you know I'd be working from home on monday. 

 

The more interesting thing is a paper in the last issue of computer (got it
today). From what I've seen of the upcoming IGSTK proposal part of it
includes multi-threading. In this issue of computer there is a paper called
"The Problem with Threads". It really advocates not using threads as they
cause programs to be nondeterministic, and very unsafe in many cases. This
goes against the IGSTK spirit of extreme safety.

 

                           Ziv

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