City LifeCity LifeThe Concurrency Vibe- March 22, 2007 It can&8216;t be a coincidence that so many of us have a search for better ways to do concurrency on our minds. I read The Trouble With Threads a couple weeks ago (long on problems, short on solutions, was my take). I've also spent time revisiting Google's Map-Reduce and the "polyphonic" concurrency extensions in C-Omega, which are shared-nothing and shared-everything approaches, respectively. Haven&8216;t looked into Erlang, guess I should. James Gosling does have a point, but it may be the..http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/the_concurrency_vibe Patently Obvious- March 20, 2007 In April last year the USPTO granted a patent for a linked list. The patent describes a list in which a) each element has multiple links and b) the links are used to traverse the list in different orders. Since reverse order is a different order than forward order, the claims apparently include the classical doubly linked list, though the patent holder, LSI Logic, could never hope to enforce such a claim. What claim could they hope to enforce This patent covers a technique that most...http://www.jroller.com/bobfoster/entry/patently_obvious |