This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Prefer structured lifetimes – local, nested, bounded, deterministic, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
Where possible, prefer structured lifetimes: ones that are local, nested, bounded, and deterministic. This is true no matter what kind of lifetime we’re considering, including object lifetimes, thread or task lifetimes, lock lifetimes, or any other kind. …
I hope you enjoy it. Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns:
The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007)
How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep 2007)
Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007)
Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007)
Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section (Dec 2007)
Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008)
Break Amdahl’s Law! (Feb 2008)
Going Superlinear (Mar 2008)
Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008)
Interrupt Politely (May 2008)
Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008)
Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008)
The Many Faces of Deadlock (Aug 2008)
Lock-Free Code: A False Sense of Security (Sep 2008)
Writing Lock-Free Code: A Corrected Queue (Oct 2008)
Writing a Generalized Concurrent Queue (Nov 2008)
Understanding Parallel Performance (Dec 2008)
Measuring Parallel Performance: Optimizing a Concurrent Queue (Jan 2009)
volatile vs. volatile (Feb 2009)
Sharing Is the Root of All Contention (Mar 2009)
Use Threads Correctly = Isolation + Asynchronous Messages (Apr 2009)
Use Thread Pools Correctly: Keep Tasks Short and Nonblocking (Apr 2009)
Eliminate False Sharing (May 2009)
Break Up and Interleave Work to Keep Threads Responsive (Jun 2009)
The Power of “In Progress” (Jul 2009)
Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009)
Avoid Exposing Concurrency – Hide It Inside Synchronous Methods (Oct 2009)
Prefer structured lifetimes – local, nested, bounded, deterministic (Nov 2009)
Sutter’s Mill 
@Benjamin
You need Ad-Block!
Hi Herb,
I feel very, very stupid! Turns out I was using firefox and I had it configured to block images from i.cmpnet.com (probably because some other site threw banners at me from that domain?). I apologise for the false alarm, but the good news is now I can sit back and enjoy your new column in all its glory. Thanks for answering!
Kind regards,
Benjamin
@Benjamin: I see all the tables/figures, including this article (just checked it again). Can you give examples of ones you don’t see? And what browser/OS are you using — I don’t maintain the site but it’s info I could pass along to Dobb’s in case it’s a browser compat issue.
Thanks for your monthly columns, I read them with great interest! Anyway, I notice that the dr dobbs site does not include any tables/figures that you reference in your article.
This means I have to wait for the Dr Dobbs Digest PDF that they mail out once a month, is this intentional?