From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Abandon lock-based synchronization in favor of STM? Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:52:42 -0500 Message-ID: <87aa48ypo5.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330113291 18886 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2012 19:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:54:51 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 24 20:54:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S11E8-00042O-Vk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:54:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S11E8-0001MU-GP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S11E5-0001Jd-KR for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S11E4-0006P0-O4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:45 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:35529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S11E4-0006O5-K4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:44 -0500 Original-Received: from 209-6-91-212.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.91.212] helo=yeeloong) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S11Dn-0001WA-Fl; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:54:27 -0500 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:13947 Archived-At: Hello all, I posted this link to IRC, but for the benefit of others, here's a paper that I highly recommend for anyone interested in a better way to handle sychronization and concurrency: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/stm/stm.pdf Mark