The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
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- title
- The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
- type
- book
- summary
- Herlihy and Shavit on linearizability, lock-free structures, and the consensus hierarchy
- author
- Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit
- year
- 2020
- tags
- concurrency, distributed-systems
- status
- want-to-read
- sources
- eatonphil-bookclub
- created
- 2026-05-12
- updated
- 2026-05-12
Canonical text on concurrent algorithms and shared-memory synchronization. Herlihy + Shavit (2nd ed. 2020) cover linearizability, lock-free and wait-free data structures, consensus hierarchy, transactional memory, and the Java-flavored algorithmic core. Read by the eatonphil-bookclub in 2025: cohort page.
Related concepts: message-passing-vs-shared-memory, distributed-consensus, spinlock.
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