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* Abandon lock-based synchronization in favor of STM?
@ 2012-02-24 19:52 Mark H Weaver
  2012-02-24 21:58 ` Hans Aberg
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From: Mark H Weaver @ 2012-02-24 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-devel

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



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* Re: Abandon lock-based synchronization in favor of STM?
  2012-02-24 19:52 Abandon lock-based synchronization in favor of STM? Mark H Weaver
@ 2012-02-24 21:58 ` Hans Aberg
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From: Hans Aberg @ 2012-02-24 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark H Weaver; +Cc: guile-devel

On 24 Feb 2012, at 20:52, Mark H Weaver wrote:

> 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

Also described here:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory

Hans





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