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Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
A detailed, personal review of Paul McKenney’s free online textbook on parallel programming. The author, coming from a TLA⁺/distributed‑systems background, finds the early chapters excellent for building intuition about CPU caches, memory ordering, and false‑sharing, but notes gaps (e.g., shallow coverage of C++11 atomics and MESI). The review is concrete, cites specific chapters, and offers prac…
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