Evaluation of exercises for clojure's software transactional memory

2017-05-25 Thread dlink . survey
for my research project of my university, I have created some exercises I want to use in a learning workshop. The subject is clojure's software transactional memory. The exercises target people who are familar with programming in generel, concurrent programming and the basics of cloju

Transactional memory design rationale

2012-09-25 Thread Warren
Hi, I have two questions about the reasons behind the design of Clojure's software transactional memory (STM): (1) Why is snapshot isolation the default rather than linearizability? For those who don't know, the difference between the two guarantees is that snapshot isolation re

Software Transactional Memory video

2010-12-21 Thread Tim Daly
This is another view of the Clojure STM idea, from the Haskell camp: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Programming-in-the-Age-of-Concurrency-Software-Transactional-Memory Recently, we visited MSR Cambridge(UK) to meet some of the great minds working there. In this case, we were

Re: Microsoft drops Software Transactional Memory

2010-05-15 Thread James G. Sack (jim)
On 05/15/2010 02:53 AM, Patrick Wright wrote: > For more details about Microsoft's work on STM, and the many, many > problems they had to address, see Joe Duffy's blog on the topic > http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetrospectiveOnTransactionalMemory.aspx > I have just about

Re: Microsoft drops Software Transactional Memory

2010-05-15 Thread Patrick Wright
For more details about Microsoft's work on STM, and the many, many problems they had to address, see Joe Duffy's blog on the topic http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetrospectiveOnTransactionalMemory.aspx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Microsoft drops Software Transactional Memory

2010-05-14 Thread Brian Hurt
skell, but most of my comments apply to Clojure as well. Brian On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Angel Java Lopez wrote: > Hi people! > > A 2008 paper, I just received today via twitter > > *Software transactional memory**: why is it only a research toy?* > > http://portal.a

Re: Microsoft drops Software Transactional Memory

2010-05-14 Thread Angel Java Lopez
Hi people! A 2008 paper, I just received today via twitter *Software transactional memory**: why is it only a research toy?* http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1400228&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=90273999&CFTOKEN=67127907&ret=1#Fulltext Angel "Java" Lopez http://www.

Microsoft drops Software Transactional Memory

2010-05-14 Thread Brian
Not directly related to Clojure but I thought this would be of interest to folks: http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/05/STM-Dropped http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c4367/microsofts_experiments_with_software/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "C

transactional memory

2009-03-09 Thread Mark Volkmann
A friend, Mike Easter, told me about a podcast on transactional memory that he really found valuable. After listening to it, I agree and felt I should pass it on. http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2007-09/episode-68-dan-grossman-garbage-collection-and-transactional-memory After listening to this

"Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory" (ACM Queue Article)

2008-11-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Clojure users might find this ACM Queue article interesting: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- "Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory" <http://acmqueue.com/rd.php?c.557> While still primarily a research project, transactional memo