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Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
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Hacker News | Sep 21, 2026 | ahelwer
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Chapter 5, Counting, is probably the marquee chapter of the book. The Validation chapter had a good section, 11. 6. 4, on Hunting Heisenbugs. Lock-free programming doesn’t really get covered until chapter 14, Advanced Synchronization, and at that point I was ready to move to a textbook focusing on lock-free programming & data structures specifically.
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