This is great, thanks for sharing! Ambrose
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Tom Van Cutsem <tomvc...@gmail.com> wrote: > The following might be of interest to Clojurians: > > https://github.com/tvcutsem/stm-in-clojure is a meta-circular > implementation of STM in Clojure. It was created purely for educational > purposes (to allow people to better understand STM by reading a Clojure > implementation, without having to descend into the Java implementation). The > simplest meta-circular MVCC implementation weighs in at less than 200 LOC. > > I use this implementation for teaching. There's a set of slides that > accompany this code at http://www.slideshare.net/tvcutsem/stm-inclojure > > I welcome any feedback on this implementation. I'm fairly new to Clojure > myself, so comments on style are also appreciated. For those "into" > Clojure's real STM implementation, pointing out any aspects of my > meta-circular implementation that may be misleading as compared to the > built-in STM would be particularly helpful. > > Kind regards, > Tom > > 2010/11/2 Tom Van Cutsem <tomvc...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> >> In a couple of months I will teach a new course on concurrent/parallel >> programming at the University of Brussels. I will use Clojure for a large >> part of the course. I primarily want the students to learn how to make >> effective use of the STM as Clojure programmers, but I would also like to >> expose them to some "under the hood" implementation details. One option >> would be to dive into the actual Java implementation of Clojure's STM, but >> my fear is that this will be too complex. Another option I've been thinking >> of is to write a simple, didactic STM in Clojure itself (following the SICP >> meta-circular interpreters tradition). It goes without saying that high >> performance is not the goal here. Rather, it should help students to grasp >> atomicity, isolation, interactions between readers/writers, the differences >> between alter and commute, etc. >> >> My questions to the list: >> - has anyone already experimented with a toy STM in Clojure for didactic >> purposes? >> - what would be a good resource to start such a design from? (my current >> plan is to start from <http://java.ociweb.com/mark/stm/article.html>) >> >> Thanks, >> Tom >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
