User:Kr

Background

• Full name is Kay Ramme
• UDK Project Lead of OOo
• Located in Hamburg
• Employeed by Sun Microsystems

Some Thoughts

• User_talk:Kr/Parameterized Headers
• User_talk:Kr/UNO References
• User:Kr/Software Continuum
• User:Kr/On Modularization

Misc

• My Linux Desktop Architects Meeting II presentation slides: Media:DAM2-OOo_1_1.odp
• My OOo Conf 2006 presentation slides: Media:OOoConf_2006_Cleaning_Up_Multi-Threading.odp
• A short presentation prepared for the OOo BOF at EuroOSCON2006: Media:EuroOSCON2006-OOo_Architecture.odp

My Efforts

• Effort/Revise OOo Multi-Threading
  • Tasks
    • cppu - remove the cppu::ClearableEnvGuard - done
    • verify that cppu::Shield is indeed needed and works as expected - done, it is needed!
    • review documentation, place tests and testers
    • rename Environment.pReserved -> pEnterable
    • do threading tests - with component, with the office
    • convert rest of office services to be thread unsafe - in progress
    • convert dtrans to thread affine?
    • Rename Threading Model impl to Threading Framework?
    • See if I can optimize the "identity mapping" somehow.
  • Possible order of integration
    • some clean ups - krmisc -done: SRC680_m191
    • Binary Uno identity mapping - bunoidmap - depends: krmisc
    • Binary Uno extended threading model - bunoexttm - depends: bunoidmap
    • VCL thread-transparency 1 - vclthreadtransparency1 - depends: bunoexttm
      • fix thread-affinity
      • DDE
      • Drag&Drop
      • Clipboard
    • Binary Uno new threading architecture - bunonewta - depends: bunoexttm
    • async dialogs - asyncdialogs
    • VCL thread-transparency 2 - vclthreadtransparency2 - depends: asyncdialogs, vclthreadtransparency1
      • remove the solar mutex
    • new OOo threading architecture - ooonewta - depends: bunoexttm, vclthreadtransparency2
• Move Uno to stuff into the Uno Wiki. See Uno/Effort/Migrate Documentation.
  • Update udk.openoffice.org to reflect latest wiki changes.
• Do a source code inventory:
  • Analysis/Source Code Inventory

Some Links

• Threading
  • OOo Threading-Architecture specification
  • Proposal/Advanced Threading-Architecture
  • COM - Processes, Threads and Apartments - "The key is to use multiple threads only if you are very sure of what you are doing." - http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms693344.aspx
  • Designing and Building Parallel Programs - http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/
  • The Future of Programming - http://alarmingdevelopment.org/index.php?p=6
  • Programming in the Age of Concurrency: Software Transactional Memory - http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=231495
  • The Problem with Threads - http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/menuitem.5d61c1d591162e4b0ef1bd108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=computer_level1_article&TheCat=1005&path=computer/homepage/0506&file=cover.xml&xsl=article.xsl
  • Threads and memory model for C++ - http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/c++mm/
  • Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes) - http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/threads.pdf
  • Swing: How to Use Threads - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/threads.html
  • An article the future of CPUs, it comments on multi-threaded applications: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=663085&seqNum=6&rl=1
• OOo
  • ToDo
  • OOo Writer Refactoring
  • Architecture
• Error Handling
  • http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-errnovariable/?ca=dgr-lnxw01UnixErrors
• Software
  • http://www.dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Feyerabend.html

Wiki Questions

• Is there way to include a list of recent changes on the Uno Wiki page?