FWIW, the Perl 6 community is also investigating STM, so it appears to be a worthwhile idea for an impure, multi-paradigm language as well.
Regards, Michael On 9/29/05, Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This paper looks very interesting and promises some good ideas. It > also looks like it will require time and effort to digest. > > I've only read the first few pages, but one thing that does leap out > is at the beginning of section 3, they say: > > "... a purely-declarative language is a perfect setting for > transactional memory." > > What's not clear to me from this is whether STM will work in a > non-declarative language like Python. > > Thursday, September 29, 2005, 8:12:23 AM, Michael Hudson wrote: > > > Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I'd like to restart this discussion; I didn't mean to put forth active > >> objects as "the" solution, only that it seems to be one of the better, > >> more OO solutions that I've seen so far. > >> > >> What I'd really like to figure out is the "pythonic" solution for > >> concurrency. Guido and I got as far as agreeing that it wasn't > >> threads. > >> > >> Here are my own criteria for what such a solution would look like: > > > Just because I've been mentioning it everywhere else since I read it, > > have you seen this paper: > > > http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/stm/ > > > ? I don't know how applicable it would be to Python but it's well > > worth the time it takes to read. > > > Cheers, > > mwh > > > > Bruce Eckel http://www.BruceEckel.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Contains electronic books: "Thinking in Java 3e" & "Thinking in C++ 2e" > Web log: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=beckel > Subscribe to my newsletter: > http://www.mindview.net/Newsletter > My schedule can be found at: > http://www.mindview.net/Calendar > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/michael.walter%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
