As I'm sure you've heard, the PDC talk abstracts just went live.

Jan Gray and I are doing a two part series on Concurrency. His talk (Part I) focuses on the philosophy, hardware, and primitives. I jump up a notch (in Part II) to look at how the Windows platform exposes concurrency, and some of the abstractions we ship to help you take advantage of it:

Programming with Concurrency (Part II)—Multithreaded Programming with Shared Memory

In this session, see hands-on examples illustrating how best to achieve parallelism safely using multithreaded techniques on Longhorn and the Common Language Runtime (CLR). We walk through some common scenarios, APIs, best practices and pitfalls, and take an in-depth look at both managed and native technologies such as threading on the CLR, Windows threads, and OpenMP. To protect your code from concurrency hazards, we discuss how Longhorn and CLR can help you handle deadlocks and other hangs as well as shared memory exhaustion. We touch on more advanced topics such as CLR explicit threading and the thread pool and asynchronous programming. Legacy issues that impact concurrent programming today such as COM and UI apartment threading and thread affinity are considered. You can expect to walk away from this session with the knowledge necessary to get started on writing efficient and reliable concurrent programs.

Session Level(s): 400

Track(s): Fundamentals

I'm also co-presenting with Mr. Pobar in a talk every compiler geek would love... (and anybody who wants to see an Aussie and a Bostonian duke it out on stage over my assertion that Lisp is the one and only truth in the world (don't worry, I'm just an academic ;) )...)

CLR: Writing a Managed Script Compiler in One Hour

Learn about writing a scripting language compiler that targets Intermediate Language in a single session. Coverage of key decision/choice points when compiling a language on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) are discussed, including the decision to statically or dynamically type and the impacts this has on your design. Includes coverage of writing a late-binder, showing that everything really can be typeless in your source language. Demonstration uses a strawman scripting language as the base language.

Track(s): Tools & Languages

Are you going to PDC? Either one of these talks interest you?