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More than ever, learning to program concurrency is critical to creating faster, responsive applications. Speedy and affordable multicore hardware i... read full description

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Jun 27, 2011
Andrei rated it: 3 of 5 stars
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This book is a good enough introduction to modern JVM concurrency libraries. In the typical pragprogs style which mostly concentrated on hows and not so much on whys it describes basics of java.concurrent, STM of Clojure, and Akka actors library. More than half of the book devoted to teach you how to use akka actors, and STM in Java code. I don't know if it helps to Scala adoption ("Look, this Java code is soooo ugly!") or don't ("Hey, I can use thos More...
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