Status Updates From Java Concurrency in Practice

A lot of this was stuff I knew or common sense. Still, I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this chapter if I'm ever seriously trying to improve the performance of a concurrent program.

Chapter 10 - Interesting contrast of Java with database systems. I usually take it for granted that deadlock will be unrecoverable, but it's a good point that there are real world systems that very often recover! The pattern of "open calls" also sounds very useful and is not something I had considered before.

Chapter 9 - "If you've tried to write even a simple GUI application using Swing..." No, I haven't. Maybe I should have skipped this chapter.

Chapter 8 - Very interesting, although not as relevant if you're used to working with higher level third party execution frameworks instead of managing your own thread pools.