Ben <midfi...@gmail.com> writes: > perhaps it is too late to suggest things for GSOC -- > > but stephen tetley on a different thread pointed at aaron turon's > work, which there's a very interesting new concurrency framework he > calls "reagents" which seems to give the best of all worlds : it is > declarative and compositional like STM, but gives performance akin to > hand-coded lock-free data structures. he seems to have straddled the > duality of isolation vs message-passing nicely, and can subsume things > like actors and the join calculus. > > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/turon/reagents.pdf > > he has a BSD licensed library in scala at > > https://github.com/aturon/ChemistrySet > > if someone doesn't want to pick this up for GSOC i might have a hand > at implementing it myself. > Keep use in the loop if you do. I have a very nice application that has been needing a nicer approach to concurrency than IORefs but really can't afford STM.
Cheers, - Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
