do you know pointers that explain the interplay between transactional memory and concurrency/immutable structure.
On Mar 23, 2009, at 7:54 AM, David Finlayson wrote: > Rich Hickey the creater of Clojure (functional Lisp) has done a bunch > of nice videos on the language here is one he did on concurrency that > is really very good: > > http://blip.tv/file/812787 > > At the end, he introduces an ant colony simulation that has similar > concurrency problems to your rock falling simulation. It is all done > with immutable persistent data structures and transaction memory. I > think it is the most exciting new programing language development of > the past few years. I wound up watching many of his videos. > > Smalltalk could do this stuff well. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
