pre-LilleHammer mailing deadline

[Boehm, Hans]

Here's the version I plan to send in later today, together with
a diff from the version with your patches incorporated.

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pugh [mailto:pugh at cs.umd.edu] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 4:24 PM
> To: Ben Hutchings; asharji at plg.uwaterloo.ca; Kevlin Henney; 
> Boehm, Hans; jimmaureenrogers at att.net; Doug Lea; Maged 
> Michael; Richard Bilson; Andrei Alexandrescu; Bill Pugh
> Subject: Re: pre-LilleHammer mailing deadline
> 
> 
> I made a few more tweaks after incorporating Ben's changes.
> 
> The main thing I changed was that the document had said that 
> data races can introduce non-determinism. Actually, threads introduce 
> non-determinism,
> and plenty of correctly synchronized multithreaded programs are 
> nondeterministic.
> 
> So I changed the wording to spell out why data races are bad: 
> Constructing a program that exhibits data races and is 
> guaranteed to work correctly in spite of reorderings allowed by 
> the
> memory system and by the compiler is very difficult, and
> data races are usually an indication
> of a programming error.
> 
> 	Bill
> 
> 
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