Best programming approach/methodology to assure thread safety

Question

When I was learning Java coming from a background of some 20 years of procedural programming with basic, Pascal, COBOL and C, I thought at the time that the hardest thing about

Answer 1

The actor model is what you are using and it is by far the simplest (and efficient way) for multithreading stuff. Basically each thread has a (synchronized) queue (it can be OS dependent or not) and other threads generate messages and put them in the queue of the thread that will handle the message.

Basic example:

thread1_proc() {

msg = get_queue1_msg(); // block until message is put to queue1
threat1_msg(msg);

}

thread2_proc() {
msg = create_msg_for_thread1();
send_to_queue1(msg);
}

It is a tipical example of producer consumer problem.