Re: Software transactional memory / atomic_ops copyright

2006-05-30 Thread Allison Randal
Charles Reiss wrote: So, to start off, a copyright question: It would be nice to use libraries that provide relatively portable atomic operation support (needed for good implementations of most "lock-free" schemes), such as HP's atomic_ops [ http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/index

Software transactional memory / atomic_ops copyright

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Reiss
I'm the student doing the summer of code project to implement STM in parrot. I've created a branch of parrot named 'stm' for this purpose. So, to start off, a copyright question: It would be nice to use libraries that provide relatively portable atomic operation support (needed for good implemen