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Java’S Insecure Parallelism, Per Brinch Hansen Jan 1999

Java’S Insecure Parallelism, Per Brinch Hansen

College of Engineering and Computer Science - Former Departments, Centers, Institutes and Projects

The author examines the synchronization features of Java and finds that they are insecure variants of his earliest ideas in parallel programming published in 1972-73. The claim that Java supports monitors is shown to be false. The author concludes that Java ignores the last twenty-five years of research in parallel programming languages.