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Programming for Parallelism

Abstract approaches to parallelism

James Reinders ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 10 Sep 2007 17:54 BST

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One of the things to avoid when it comes to parallelism is working with raw threads. Abstraction offers a way around the issue, by avoiding the need to deal with low-level details of parallel systems, as James Reinders explains...

I'm James Reinders. A common question I get asked is: "If I'm going to add parallelism to my program, how should I do it? What should I look for?"

A seemingly simple question, so let's see if we can give a simple answer to it. I've got 1-2-3s of abstractions to use for parallelism.

And I really want to emphasise that when you look to do parallelism, one of the things we want to avoid is…

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