Concurrency Proposal

[Matt Revelle]

Should transactional memory be thought of at this point?

For any interested, here are some links:
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/stm/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory


On 3/9/06, Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:
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> I don't have much to directly comment on except that it'd be a
> benefit to get some discussion on the technical points so that we
> wind up with a good initial design and don't "code ourselves into a
> corner"; concurrent programming support can be a tricky issue in that
> it pervades assumptions about code and what it can do.

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