Java's insecure parallelism

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Java's insecure parallelism

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 34 , Issue 4 (April 1999) table of contents

Pages: 38 - 45

Year of Publication: 1999

ISSN:0362-1340

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Per Brinch Hansen

Syracuse University, 2-175 CST, Syracuse, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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The author examines the synchronization features of Java and finds that they are insecure variants of his earliest ideas in parallel programming published in 1972-73. The claim that Java supports monitors is shown to be false. The author concludes that Java ignores the last twenty-five years of research in parallel programming languages.

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