On 29-05-2012 23:32, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 5/29/12 1:35 AM, deadalnix wrote:
Le 29/05/2012 01:38, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit :
I should probably add that Java learned it long ago, and yet we adopted
it anyway... blergh.
That is what I was about to say. No point of doing D if it is to repeat
previously done errors.
So what is the lesson Java learned, and how does it address
multithreaded programming in wake of that lesson?
Andrei
It learned that allowing locking on arbitrary objects makes controlling
locking (and thus reducing the chance for deadlocks) impossible.
It goes against our TLS-by-default and message-passing concurrency design.
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