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Book Review of Synchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming Author of Book: Gadi Taubenfeld Publisher: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2006, 433 pages Reviewed by Danny Hendler, Ben-Gurion University, hendlerd@cs.bgu.ac.il Introduction Although there are quite a few books that deal with various aspects of the theory and practice of multiprocessor synchronization, only a handful of them fall into the category of ˜textbooks ™ ([2, 13, 18] are notable examples); Gadi Taubenfeld ™s recent book, œSynchronization Algorithms and Concurrent Programming , is certainly one of them. Taubenfeld ™s book focuses on inter-process synchronization in shared-memory systems. The book provides an in-depth discussion of algorithms and lower bounds for a wide range of synchronization problems, such as mutual exclusion, barrier synchronization, l -exclusion, deadlock-prevention, the dining philosophers problem, the producer-consumer problem, consensus, and many more. As stated in its preface, the book is meant to be used as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses and special emphasis has been given to make it accessible to a wide audience. The book ™s structure and methodology re ‚ect these goals in several ways: ¢ The book is mostly self-contained. ¢ Each section ends with a set of self review questions and their

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Book review of synchronization algorithms and concurrent programming by Gadi Taubenfeld (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006)

Reviewer-Hendler, Danny
ACM SIGACT News , Volume 40 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 28, 2009

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  • Copyright The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc.
  • ISSN 0163-5700
  • D.O.I. 10.1145/1515698.1515711
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