Note that I made a grave error of thinking before writing this article: I forgot the copy-on-write page sharing of modern Unices. I added two paragraphs to this article that should clarify the point. Thanks for your comment, Alex.
I participated in the design and development of a couple of concurrency libraries for shared-memory multiprocessors long before such machines were popular. So when I started using java.util.concurrent I was already somewhat comfortable with the concepts.
The C++ standardization committee is hard at work standardizing threads for the next version of C++. Some members recently met to discuss the issues, and The C++ Source was there. Read on to learn what the world’s leading experts on concurrency are plan