[kw-pm] Upcoming talks

[fishbot]

Yeesh, you always make me out to be some sort of mad scientist.

It will be a very basic talk:

- creating threads, locks, shared memory and so on in Perl
- what can be built from the primitives (semaphores, critical
   sections, etc.)  I won't assume any familiarity with these
   concepts.
- what has been build that you can just use from CPAN

And then I've been curious about the potential for building a 
simple message passing framework around these resources - that 
is, restrict communication and shared memory to a single 
abstraction of 'sending a message'.

I'll be talking about some of the issues with both concurrent 
programming in general, and Perl's notoriously flabby and fragile 
threads.  I'm curious if a message passing abstraction alleviates 
some of these issues, or is like training a dog to sing: an 
interesting exercise, but your dog won't suddenly smelling like 
Avril.

Eric

---- original message : 2008-07-10 11:43am : Daniel R. Allen ----

> We're moving our regular meeting to one week later, in order that those of
> us who are interested can go to this talk:
>
> Thursday, July 17, 2008-
> Free public lecture at the University of Waterloo:
> Breaking High-Grade German Cyphers in World War II, by Peter Hilton,
> cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park. 7:00 p.m., Humanities Theatre.
>
> And our regular kw.pm meeting is a week later:
>
> Thursday, July 24, 2008-
> fishbot will talk on Threading in Perl: Synchronization Primatives, and
> Building a Message Passing Architecture (which he says will be a basic
> talk. ...Or at least for fish, a basic talk; it may leave me in the
> dust on slide 3, but I'm looking forward to it anyway.)
>
>
>
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