Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
Noury
This was useful in doing our single threaded JavaScript to Multi-threaded Swift IOS platform code http://reactivex.io
....
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Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
Noury
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Not to sound flippant - but do everything you can to limit where you use concurrency (and if possible, not at all). It adds lots of complication that often isn’t necessary.
Where you do need it, queue results or commands and then have workers to process those - workers, queues and commands put you back into easily testable territory.
Then you are left with the concurrent bit - hopefully now quite tiny and specific, which you you can normally blast and test if you have concurrency hole - but in the realms of can it queue things up in an orderly fashion and dequeue them as well. Deep code inspection on this is also helpful (albeit manual).
Tim
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This was useful in doing our single threaded JavaScript to Multi-threaded Swift IOS platform code http://reactivex.io
....
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What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
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Precisely my thinking! try to avoid concurrency as much as possible and if you really have to use it, try a queue approach.
Georg Heeg eK
Wallstraße 22
06366 Köthen
Tel.: 03496/214328
FAX: 03496/214712
Amtsgericht Dortmund HRA 12812
Am 5. September 2019 um 09:34:25, Tim Mackinnon (tim@testit.worksmailto:tim@testit.works) schrieb:
Not to sound flippant - but do everything you can to limit where you use concurrency (and if possible, not at all). It adds lots of complication that often isn’t necessary.
Where you do need it, queue results or commands and then have workers to process those - workers, queues and commands put you back into easily testable territory.
Then you are left with the concurrent bit - hopefully now quite tiny and specific, which you you can normally blast and test if you have concurrency hole - but in the realms of can it queue things up in an orderly fashion and dequeue them as well. Deep code inspection on this is also helpful (albeit manual).
Tim
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On 4 Sep 2019, at 14:55, John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.commailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
This was useful in doing our single threaded JavaScript to Multi-threaded Swift IOS platform code http://reactivex.iohttp://reactivex.io/
....
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Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
Noury
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Hello,
Supposing you are working on a desktop app and you need to keep your main image responsive and want to offload things to a worker image on a separate processor you can hook it to the keyboard processor once finished.
If you are basically making a clone of your image it is easy to make a switch (dev/runtime) to do all the development and debugging in the same image.
This is at least my scenario. The main application works on a read-write sqlite file. The worker makes a read only copy , slowly synchronises everything with Postgres on compose.io http://compose.io/, when finished puts itself on the keyboard queue and when it his turn writes the differences to the local sqlite work file and signals an UI update.
The keyboard hook makes it possible for the worker to come back on the main thread as a normal user interaction.
Hope this helps,
Maarten,
Le 5 sept. 2019 à 10:27, Karsten Kusche karsten@heeg.de a écrit :
Precisely my thinking! try to avoid concurrency as much as possible and if you really have to use it, try a queue approach.
Georg Heeg eK
Wallstraße 22
06366 Köthen
Tel.: 03496/214328
FAX: 03496/214712
Amtsgericht Dortmund HRA 12812
Am 5. September 2019 um 09:34:25, Tim Mackinnon (tim@testit.works mailto:tim@testit.works) schrieb:
Not to sound flippant - but do everything you can to limit where you use concurrency (and if possible, not at all). It adds lots of complication that often isn’t necessary.
Where you do need it, queue results or commands and then have workers to process those - workers, queues and commands put you back into easily testable territory.
Then you are left with the concurrent bit - hopefully now quite tiny and specific, which you you can normally blast and test if you have concurrency hole - but in the realms of can it queue things up in an orderly fashion and dequeue them as well. Deep code inspection on this is also helpful (albeit manual).
Tim
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On 4 Sep 2019, at 14:55, John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com mailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
This was useful in doing our single threaded JavaScript to Multi-threaded Swift IOS platform code http://reactivex.io http://reactivex.io/
....
John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk
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Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
Noury
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Adding to my previous speakers …
At a (non-Smalltalk) conference I once watched a very comprehensive and good presentation by a Professor who also worked for companies. So he had both the theoretical and the practical background and he covered a few different uses cases. The closing summary of his presentation was:
Concurrency is a must (in the light of the end of Moore’s Law)
Avoid concurrency as long as you can
If you really need concurrency then there is no one-size-fits-all solution: each performance/scaling problem is different and needs a different approach
I am sorry I don’t remember the neither the name of the Professor nor the name of the conference ☹ Yet if I do and find the presentation on the web I will distribute the link here.
Cheers
Helge
Helge Nowak
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Hello,
Supposing you are working on a desktop app and you need to keep your main image responsive and want to offload things to a worker image on a separate processor you can hook it to the keyboard processor once finished.
If you are basically making a clone of your image it is easy to make a switch (dev/runtime) to do all the development and debugging in the same image.
This is at least my scenario. The main application works on a read-write sqlite file. The worker makes a read only copy , slowly synchronises everything with Postgres on compose.iohttp://compose.io, when finished puts itself on the keyboard queue and when it his turn writes the differences to the local sqlite work file and signals an UI update.
The keyboard hook makes it possible for the worker to come back on the main thread as a normal user interaction.
Hope this helps,
Maarten,
Le 5 sept. 2019 à 10:27, Karsten Kusche <karsten@heeg.demailto:karsten@heeg.de> a écrit :
Precisely my thinking! try to avoid concurrency as much as possible and if you really have to use it, try a queue approach.
Georg Heeg eK
Wallstraße 22
06366 Köthen
Tel.: 03496/214328
FAX: 03496/214712
Amtsgericht Dortmund HRA 12812
Am 5. September 2019 um 09:34:25, Tim Mackinnon (tim@testit.worksmailto:tim@testit.works) schrieb:
Not to sound flippant - but do everything you can to limit where you use concurrency (and if possible, not at all). It adds lots of complication that often isn’t necessary.
Where you do need it, queue results or commands and then have workers to process those - workers, queues and commands put you back into easily testable territory.
Then you are left with the concurrent bit - hopefully now quite tiny and specific, which you you can normally blast and test if you have concurrency hole - but in the realms of can it queue things up in an orderly fashion and dequeue them as well. Deep code inspection on this is also helpful (albeit manual).
Tim
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On 4 Sep 2019, at 14:55, John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.commailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
This was useful in doing our single threaded JavaScript to Multi-threaded Swift IOS platform code http://reactivex.iohttp://reactivex.io/
....
John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk
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Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
Noury
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See Stefan Marr's talks at Smalltalks 2012.
On 9/5/19 8:14 , Nowak, Helge wrote:
Adding to my previous speakers …
At a (non-Smalltalk) conference I once watched a very comprehensive and
good presentation by a Professor who also worked for companies. So he
had both the theoretical and the practical background and he covered a
few different uses cases. The closing summary of his presentation was:
Concurrency is a must (in the light of the end of Moore’s Law)
Avoid concurrency as long as you can
If you really need concurrency then there is no
one-size-fits-all solution: each performance/scaling problem is
different and needs a different approach
I am sorry I don’t remember the neither the name of the Professor nor
the name of the conference LYet if I do and find the presentation on the
web I will distribute the link here.
Cheers
Helge
Helge Nowak
Cincom Smalltalk Technical Account Manager
http://internal.cincom.com/signature/logo.png
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/
Cincom Systems GmbH & Co. oHG
Humboldtstraße 3
60318 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
office
mobile
website
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Hello,
Supposing you are working on a desktop app and you need to keep your
main image responsive and want to offload things to a worker image on a
separate processor you can hook it to the keyboard processor once finished.
If you are basically making a clone of your image it is easy to make a
switch (dev/runtime) to do all the development and debugging in the same
image.
This is at least my scenario. The main application works on a read-write
sqlite file. The worker makes a read only copy , slowly synchronises
everything with Postgres on compose.io http://compose.io, when
finished puts itself on the keyboard queue and when it his turn writes
the differences to the local sqlite work file and signals an UI update.
The keyboard hook makes it possible for the worker to come back on the
main thread as a normal user interaction.
Hope this helps,
Maarten,
Le 5 sept. 2019 à 10:27, Karsten Kusche <karsten@heeg.de
<mailto:karsten@heeg.de>> a écrit :
Precisely my thinking! try to avoid concurrency as much as possible
and if you _really_ have to use it, try a queue approach.
Georg Heeg eK
Wallstraße 22
06366 Köthen
Tel.: 03496/214328
FAX: 03496/214712
Amtsgericht Dortmund HRA 12812
Am 5. September 2019 um 09:34:25, Tim Mackinnon (tim@testit.works
<mailto:tim@testit.works>) schrieb:
Not to sound flippant - but do everything you can to limit where
you use concurrency (and if possible, not at all). It adds lots
of complication that often isn’t necessary.
Where you do need it, queue results or commands and then have
workers to process those - workers, queues and commands put you
back into easily testable territory.
Then you are left with the concurrent bit - hopefully now quite
tiny and specific, which you you can normally blast and test if
you have concurrency hole - but in the realms of can it queue
things up in an orderly fashion and dequeue them as well. Deep
code inspection on this is also helpful (albeit manual).
Tim
Sent from my iPhone
On 4 Sep 2019, at 14:55, John M McIntosh
<johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com
<mailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com>> wrote:
This was useful in doing our single threaded JavaScript to
Multi-threaded Swift IOS platform code http://reactivex.io
<http://reactivex.io/>
....
John M. McIntosh. Corporate Smalltalk Consulting
Ltd https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalltalk
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Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
- What are your best practices and recommendations for
developing and testing concurrent software?
- How to discover need for synchronization/critical
sections/ when doing TDD?
- How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
Noury
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TL; DR: generally, developing a good sense of what to do before
writing a single line of code works really well.
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Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
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Hi guys
I imagine that noury knows most of the remarks you sent it.
He is far from dull.
Now it would be nice to read his questions and reply to them and not just tell him
“oh do not use concurrency”
The questions are essentially how do we test? how does concurrent programming fit in TDD.
Stef
On 6 Sep 2019, at 02:32, Andres Valloud avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net wrote:
TL; DR: generally, developing a good sense of what to do before
writing a single line of code works really well.
On 9/4/19 6:32 , N. Bouraqadi wrote:
Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
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On 9/6/19 23:24 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Now it would be nice to read his questions and reply to them and not
just tell him “oh do not use concurrency”
I did not say that at all --- yet you are complaining to me :).
The questions are essentially how do we test? how does concurrent
programming fit in TDD.
A sharper and more open minded question might be "what is the best way
to build reliable programs using concurrency flavor XYZ?".
Andres.
Stef
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mailto:avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net> wrote:
TL; DR: generally, developing a good sense of what to do before
writing a single line of code works really well.
On 9/4/19 6:32 , N. Bouraqadi wrote:
Hi everyone,
Can I get your input on the following questions :
What are your best practices and recommendations for developing and
testing concurrent software?
How to discover need for synchronization/critical sections/ when
doing TDD?
How to write code to avoid dead-locks?
Thanks for your help,
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