The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club

Herlihy used to have video lectures up. He gave lectures to university students and he recorded it one year. I was lucky enough to watch them. We had this course for my computer science master. It was a good course thanks to this book :)

I wasn't aware of this initiative, looks interesting and such a good idea in hindsight!

Might be a good help to keep the enthousiasm and energy to read a technical book in its entirety!

Interesting idea! This is an excellent book for learning about concurrency and parallelism. I'll join if I can find the time.

For reference, the second edition includes two additional chapters: "Optimism and manual memory management" and "Transactional programming". Did you intentionally skip those? :)

Sir, would you care to perhaps elaborate as to how this club business works. Potentially lots of folks interested. Thanks.

Hey, that sounds super cool. So I already put my stuff into the Google Forms. Will we get some invite, or how does this work?

What a cool idea! I'll join if my schedule allows. Thanks for doing this.

I am so surprised to hear about this book reading club, I don't know how it works but I will join and try to work through the book like everyone else.

Have you considered creating collaboratively written Anki decks for each chapter of each book as you read them?

It’s not a free book. I believe that comment was a gentle nudge to remind people they actually need to buy it to support the author.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780124159501/the-art-of-... - This is the current edition.

I'm only comparing the TOCs here:

Chapters 1-6 have, unless I missed something, the same chapter topics and section titles.

Chapter 7 seems to be reorganized a bit and adds an exercises section.

Chapters 8 - 16 have one extra section for exercises each, I'm not seeing (quick review) any other differences in section names.

Chapter 17 becomes Chapter 18, adds an exercises section.

Chapter 18 becomes Chapter 20, several additional sections.

So the earlier edition is missing Chapter 17 "Data parallelism" and Chapter 19 "Optimism and manual memory management" from the newer edition. Only the missing Chapter 17 would impact the reading group plan since it is covering chapters 1-18.

I included the ISBN on the page. :) 9780124159501

Yes this is only for this book's discussion. The broader mailing list is on /bookclub.html. And that mailing list is used just to stay in the loop about future readings (and votes on future readings).

It's explained on the page. :) Each week someone kicks off discussion. The form helps me find a volunteer for each chapter.

It's what makes it sustainable for me to keep running this group.

The very first one I did was in person in NYC. Of the 20 who signed up 5-7 actively showed up. I decided to move it purely asynchronous online to make it easier for anyone anywhere to participate. I host other meetups in NYC still just not a tech book club.

Discord would be unpleasant for something like this with so many participants. It's a similar reason to skipping out on Hangouts, Zoom, etc. It forces synchronization, if you're not online during the discussion you're effectively barred from it. It can be very hard to catch up and very hard to respond to any particular thread of discussion. Discord is also, by design, essentially single-threaded. You can reply to specific comments but it's still presented in an interleaved format which makes tracking difficult when multiple threads of discussion are occurring at once.

If the discussion is light, it's a non-issue, but with 300-800 (per eatonphil's comment) it's likely that it will not be light.

Google groups is a forum but discord has horrible historical retention.