Darren Duncan schreef:
> Each time a context (a code block, either a routine or a syntactic
> construct like 'try' is) is entered that is marked 'is atomic', a new
> transaction begins, which as a whole can later be committed or rolled
> back; it implicitly commits if that context is exited normal
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:52:59AM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
: The lock on entry approach will only be for non-threaded interpreters
: that don't know how to do real STM.
The way I see it, the fundamental difference is that with ordinary
locking, you're locking in real time, whereas with STM you po
Larry Wall wrote:
The way I see it, the fundamental difference is that with ordinary
locking, you're locking in real time, whereas with STM you potentially
have the ability to virtualize time to see if there's a way to order
the locks in virtual time such that they still make sense. Then you
jus
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:22:12PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> >The way I see it, the fundamental difference is that with ordinary
> >locking, you're locking in real time, whereas with STM you potentially
> >have the ability to virtualize time to see if there's a way to order
