[E-Lang] Speaking of Community Process: Memory Model & Threads

[Mark S. Miller]

At 10:59 AM Sunday 7/8/01, Chris Hibbert wrote:
>[...] expert
>group to consider revisions to the Java Memory Model and Thread
>Specification.  I won't claim to understand the issues, but it looks
>likely to me that E will be affected by the results.  [...]

Hi Chris,
I just took a *very* brief look, and nothing that would affect E jumped out 
at me.  What kind of issue do you have in mind?


>In this case, it might even be sufficient to just talk to one of the
>members of the committee once you were familiar with the issues.  (Doug
>Lea and William Pugh are on it.)

Don't know William.  It would be great to have our interests represented by 
Doug.

Doug, I know you've been interested in understanding E in the past, and in 
particular its concurrency control model.  Between the informal 
http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/ewalnut.html#SEC18 and the semi-formal 
http://www.erights.org/elib/concurrency/index.html you may find it to now be 
adequately explained.  We'd love to have you join e-lang in any case of 
course. ( http://www.erights.org/elib/concurrency/index.html ) If these 
proposed changes are in fact relevant to us, then we'd be doubly happy to 
have you join our list and discuss them with us. Thanks.


        Cheers,
        --MarkM