On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote:
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> I gave a talk on STM at a conference in St. Louis called "Strange
> Loop" last Thursday.
>
That is the most awesome title for a conference, ever. (Said the guy who
just finished GEB: an EGB).
> 1 up and 2 up PDF versions of the slides ar
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:36 PM, MarkSwanson wrote:
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> I'm confused about the slide on barging:
>
> "txnB has a status of RUNNING and can be changed to KILLED".
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> Are you implying that simply having a status of RUNNING is all that is
> required for the txn to be killed?
> Or, are there other r
I'm confused about the slide on barging:
"txnB has a status of RUNNING and can be changed to KILLED".
Are you implying that simply having a status of RUNNING is all that is
required for the txn to be killed?
Or, are there other requirements to "can be changed"?
I'm having a hard time wrapping m
After reading your PDF, I now understand what Clojure means by the
term "coordinate". Thanks a lot!
--
coordinating activities of multiple actors (i.e. transactions)
• may want to send messages to multiple actors within a txn
and guarantee that either all messages are proc
