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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011: Russel Winder on Just Keep Passing the Messages
Just Keep Passing the Messages
Received Java wisdom since 1995 has been that shared-memory multi-threading is the way of handling concurrency in Java. Since the Multicore Revolution and the arrival of real ubiquitous parallelism, the problems of programming multiple threads has been thrown into stark relief. The general solution is to move to a higher level of abstraction. Models such as actors, dataflow and communicating sequential processes (CSP) have been around long before shared-memory multi-threading became all the rage. It is now time for these models to re-assert themselves as the right models for applications programmers.

The GPars (http://gpars.codehaus.org/) framework provides these models today for Java and Groovy programmers. Russel looks at some problems coded up using GPars and compares them with old-style techniques. The result will undoubtedly be a huge move to use of GPars for all Java and Groovy based concurrency and parallelism.

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ABOUT RUSSEL WINDER
Russel is centrally involved with the development of the Groovy programming language and the GPars framework, is author of the Gant Ant task scripting framework, and contributes to the Gradle build framework.
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ABOUT THE GGUG
The Groovy & Grails User Group was founded in 2007, a few months prior to the first Groovy & Grails eXchange.

The Groovy & Grails UG aims to meet once every month or so, providing an opportunity for Groovy & Grails experts, programmers and enthusiasts to learn, meet and discuss.

The Groovy & Grails UG (UK) also discusses events and ideas on the G&G UG (UK) LinkedIN Group


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PODCAST JUST KEEP PASSING THE MESSAGES

This session took part at the Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011. You can view the other 35 podcasts here.

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