Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2011 about Ruby and Java and Concurrency

Thursday 23rd June 2011

• The History of Concurrency

  by Michael Schurter

  Whether it's node.js, goroutines in Go, gevent/eventlet in Python, Rubinius's hydra branch for Ruby, Akka for the JVM, or async primitives for C# 5.0, concurrency is a hot topic.

  It's too easy to forget that coroutines were first defined in a 1963 paper and that preemptive multitasking, like traditional Thread interfaces offer, were a part of Unix's first release in 1969.

  This talk aims to present a historical context for all of the "new" concurrency models and attempt to peer into the future to see how existing concurrency paradigms will serve hackers in a massively multicore future.

  • Concurrency
  • History
  • Java
  • Python
  • Ruby

  At 11:00am to 11:45am, Thursday 23rd June

  Coverage note