Re: ACID transactions for in-memory data structures
Rob Kinyon wrote: On 5/15/06, Audrey Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Kinyon wrote: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be very feasible to do this natively in P5. But, would it be possible to do it natively in P6? As in, supported within the interpreter vs. through some sort of overloading. Look at is atomic in S17draft, and Software Transaction Memory in general? Would there be a way for me to say Yes, I understand that Perl may not generically understand how to revert this outside resource, such as a database, but I do. and do a catch-type block for the revert? There was discussion about this on one of the dbi2 lists at some point. I think a minimal API was even fleshed out - but it probably died there and would love someone to pick it up. Sam.
Re: ACID transactions for in-memory data structures
On 5/15/06, Audrey Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Kinyon wrote: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be very feasible to do this natively in P5. But, would it be possible to do it natively in P6? As in, supported within the interpreter vs. through some sort of overloading. Look at is atomic in S17draft, and Software Transaction Memory in general? Would there be a way for me to say Yes, I understand that Perl may not generically understand how to revert this outside resource, such as a database, but I do. and do a catch-type block for the revert? Rob
Re: ACID transactions for in-memory data structures
Rob Kinyon wrote: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be very feasible to do this natively in P5. But, would it be possible to do it natively in P6? As in, supported within the interpreter vs. through some sort of overloading. Look at is atomic in S17draft, and Software Transaction Memory in general? Audrey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
