This could be useful: Beautiful concurrency by Simon Peyton Jones
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/stm/beautiful.pdf
On 29 July 2010 02:23, Eitan Goldshtrom thesource...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone. I was wondering if someone could just guide me toward some good
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Eitan Goldshtrom
thesource...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps you guys could help me with Cabal now though? I'm
trying to install Orc but it wants base=4.2 and =4.3 and I have 4.1 after
installing the latest release of GHC. Cabal won't upgrade the base. It
complains
You might try pulling downloading the package ('cabal fetch org' will do
this) and changing the base dependency (to = 4.1) in the orc.cabal file and
then build it manually (cabal configure cabal build cabal install
(while in the same directory as the .cabal file)) and see what happens.
I don't
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Job Vranish job.vran...@gmail.com wrote:
You might try pulling downloading the package ('cabal fetch org' will do
this) and changing the base dependency (to = 4.1) in the orc.cabal file
cabal also has an 'unpack' command for the particularly lazy (me). Ex:
Hi everyone. I was wondering if someone could just guide me toward some
good information, but if anyone wants to help with a personal
explanation I welcome it. I'm trying to write a threaded program and I'm
not sure how to manage my memory. I read up on MVars and they make a lot
of sense. My
Atomic operations are special operations where you don't have to worry about
some other process messing with things while the operation is taking place.
For a simple example of why atomic operations are important:
(taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearizability#Non-atomic)
The naive,
Ah! That clears that up a lot. I read the wiki page but something just
didn't make full sense about it until you used the word prevent. I
understand that the computer doesn't actually prevent other threads from
running -- that would defeat the purpose of the concurrency -- but it
helped clear
