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Programming Concurrency on the JVM
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You’ve promised the boss that you’ll turn the new powerful multicore pro- cessor into a blazingly fast workhorse for your application. You’d love to exploit the power on hand and beat your competition with a faster, responsive application that provides great user experience. Those gleeful thoughts are interrupted by your colleague’s cry for help—he’s run into yet another syn- chronization issue.
Most programmers have a love-hate relationship with concurrency.
Programming concurrency is hard, yet the benefits it provides make all the troubles worthwhile. The processing power we have at our disposal, at such an affordable cost, is something that our parents could only dream of. We can exploit the ability to run multiple concurrent tasks to create stellar applications. We have the ability to write applications that can provide a great user experience by staying a few steps ahead of the user. Features that would’ve made apps sluggish a decade ago are quite practical today. To re- alize this, however, we have to program concurrency.
In this chapter, we’ll quickly review the reasons to exploit concurrency and discuss the perils that this path is mired in. At the end of this chapter, we’ll be prepared to explore the exciting options for concurrency presented in this book.
Venkat Subramaniam - Personal Name
978-1-934356-76-0
NONE
Information Technology
English
2011
1-282
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