Devin, No course notes at the moment, but there is a slide set that should make it easier to digest the code: < http://soft.vub.ac.be/~tvcutsem/talks/presentations/STM-in-Clojure.pdf>
Cheers, Tom 2011/4/21 Devin Walters <dev...@gmail.com> > +1 > > Thanks so much. Looking forward to digging into the code this evening. > > Any chance you will have any online course materials for public > consumption? > > Thanks again, > Sent via mobile > > On Apr 21, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant < > abonnaireserge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is great, thanks for sharing! > > Ambrose > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Tom Van Cutsem < <http://tomvc.be> > tomvc.be@ <http://gmail.com>gmail.com> wrote: > >> The following might be of interest to Clojurians: >> >> <https://github.com/tvcutsem/stm-in-clojure> >> 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> >> 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 < <http://tomvc.be>tomvc.be@ <http://gmail.com> >> 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> >>> 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> >> 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%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> <http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en> >> 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> > 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> > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > <http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en> > 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 > -- 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
