[racket-dev] Racket Guide chapter on concurrency

If you need examples, take a look at:
   The Little Book of Semaphores
   http://www.greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey05semaphores.pdf

/Jens Axel


2013/10/6 David T. Pierson <dtp at mindstory.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> At the hackathon Asumu helped me work on a Guide chapter on concurrency.
>
> Thanks Asumu!
>
> Since then I've fleshed it out some more and pushed a commit to github.
>
> https://github.com/davidtpierson/racket/commit/d2fb857efec8ce508ac6f76afa845d788edab4c1
>
> It probably needs more work.  I would love some feedback before I dare to
> submit a pull request.
>
> Some of my concerns, in no particular order:
>
> 1) Should it be broken into separate pages?
>
> 2) It starts out with the basics of threads.  Is this too trivial to cover?
>
> 3) There are lots of ways to synchronize Racket threads.  I try to cover them
> broadly, but don't really delve into which ones are best.  Parts seem like
> they are just restating information from the reference.  Should there be more
> prescriptive text?
>
> 4) Some of the examples feel clumsy.  Contriving concurrency examples
> that are both simple and meaningful was hard.  I'm not sure I succeeded.
>
> Thanks for any feedback (on the above issues or anything else.)
>
> David
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