A reviewer discusses their experience reading Paul E. McKenney's free online textbook on parallel programming. They attended a 2026 conference where conversations about lock-free concurrency sparked interest in the subject, leading them to choose this textbook for its focus on concurrent programming and CPU cache effects rather than specific synchronization patterns.
A reviewer discusses their experience reading Paul E. McKenney's free online textbook on parallel programming, covering their professional background in TLA+ and distributed systems, how a conference conversation sparked interest in lock-free concurrency, and practical notes on the textbook's multiple PDF formats and extensive internal linking.