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 | | Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science) by M. Ben-Ari ISBN-10: 9780137118212 ISBN-10: 0-13-711821-X ISBN-13: 9780137118212 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-711821-2 Textbook Binding 1990-04-06 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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still reading it, so far... i have been reading about concurrency and related issues for quite a while now. after reading a few favorable reviews about this book here and elsewhere, i decided to give it a shot. i have read about 50 pages; what i am going to say will not change as i read more (safety property, if you will). the part where deadlock and starvation freedom is presented and the example algorithms used for clarification is very dubious and makes me doubt the rigor with which this book was written. granted, deadlock seems to enjoy several slightly different semantics. this should not, however, mean that anything resembling deadlock freedom can be classified under deadlock freedom as its definition. there is one algorithm which clearly is not deadlock-free (under no contention, a thread should be always allowed to enter its critical section) and yet is tagged deadlock-free: its progress depends on the other thread's progress where this other thread might be lost somewhere in its remainder code, showing no interest in the critical section. now, this example is at the beginning of the book and is about a very simple concept. if the author gets this wrong, what does one think about the rest of the book? will the reader be always on the lookout for possible subtle mistakes? it is my understanding that a reader should be able to trust the writer of the text to fully enjoy the text. this lack of trust made me suspend reading the book. i am trying to get the fundamental notions right before i go any further in this book. at the end, what does this mean? buy and read this book only if you already have some other reference books on concurrency and want to see yet another approach to a still highly unstable research topic. | ||
Excellent,Amazing Book This book is only one that I know where you can really study sinchronization method for parallel computing in deep in its mathametic ant strong logic proofs. Realy AMAZING book | ||
Very Academic This book did provide a good method of creating tables to help identify concurrency issues and as a possible method for analysis of concurrent systems. However, the presentation within this book is extremely dry and this newly learned method is truly overkill for most applications. If one wants to learn about the academic perspective on concurrent programming, then this book is absolutely for you, but if you want a book to give you the concepts and then some practical applications within Windows or Linux then you should definitely look elsewhere. | ||
An excellent rigorous introduction An excellent, rigorous, mathematical introduction to concurrent programming. This book concentrates on principles and theory, providing an excellent background for concurrent programming. Readers expecting a tutorial on pthreads or win32 threads should look elsewhere. A calculus for reasoning about concurrent programming is presented, along with problems, solutions, and proofs for common concurrent programming concerns. A superb academic treatment of the topic, but not for the weak kneed. | ||
Very good introduction Used at the University of Liege, Belgium as reference for the Parallel System lecture. Everyone found it very useful | ||