NB: I started writing this last August, and sent it to a friend of mine for thoughts. I just realized that he never got back to me on it, and I never posted it. I don't much feel like editing it now, so here it is in its original glory Okay, I know. It is nearly impossible to read and understand the causality bits of the Java memory model. That's all that stuff about "Executions and Causality Requirements" on pages 568 – 570 of the Java Language Specification . Bill Pugh, Sarita Adve and I wrote it. Basically, in the last three years, there have been three kinds of reactions to it: ZOMGWTF!? (I'm a normal human being. Give me a break.) This is incomprehensible gibberish. (I'm a pretty smart cookie and I think that everything I can't understand in three seconds is worthless.) Okay, I think I get it, but I have some questions. (I'm a pretty smart cookie and I spent several days trying to understand it.) I find that the last group usually prett...
Jeremy Manson's blog, which goes into great detail either about concurrency in Java, or anything else that the author happens to feel is interesting or relevant to the target audience.