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2025

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

Part of the Software Internals Email Book Club.

The next book we'll read is The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd
Edition (ISBN 9780124159501) from 2020 by Herlihy, Shavit, Luchangco,
and Spear. A free PDF comes up for me on a Google search of this book
but it is of the 1st Edition from 2008. Make sure you grab the 2nd
Edition from 2020.

Date      Discussion   Chapter Title
          starter
August    Phil         1       Introduction
16th
August    TBD          2       Mutual exclusion
23rd
August    TBD          3       Concurrent objects
30th
September TBD          4       Foundations of shared memory
6th
September TBD          5       The relative power of primitive
13th                           synchronization operations
September TBD          6       Universality of consensus
20th
September TBD          7       Spin locks and contention
27th
October   TBD          8       Monitors and blocking synchronization
4th
October   TBD          9       Linked lists: The role of locking
11th
October   TBD          10      Queues, memory management, and the ABA
18th                           problem
October   TBD          11      Stacks and elimination
25th
November  TBD          12      Counting, sorting, and distributed
1st                            coordination
November  TBD          13      Concurrent hashing and natural
8th                            parallelism
November  TBD          14      Skiplists and balanced search
15th
November  TBD          15      Priority queues
22th
November  TBD          16      Scheduling and work distribution
29th
December  TBD          17      Data parallelism
6th
December  TBD          18      Barriers
13th

All discussion is via a Google Group. You probably need a Google
account. Your email will be public if you post but otherwise it will
not be visible to anyone.

There will be no Zoom or Google Hangout, it will purely be over text
email.

You should read the chapter before the date it is listed.

Discussion starter

Each weekend, one person will send out an email to start discussion.
It can be as short as a paragraph or two just to get discussion
going. Anyone else can chime in afterward.

It's most fun if this discussion starter doesn't summarize the
chapter but tells a bit about themselves, their background, and what
resonated or was confusing in the chapter, or how it tied back to
something they experienced in the real-world.

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