Re: [pypy-dev] pypy-stm and lock-free data structures

2013-10-24 Thread Nathan Hurst
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:27:05AM -0700, Andrew Francis wrote: > The University of Chicago/Microsoft Research paper "Scalable Join > Patterns" (http://www.mpi-sws.org/~turon/scalable-joins.pdf) > outlines an approach for implementing join patterns using > essentially lock-free bags, optimistic lo

Re: [pypy-dev] pypy-stm and lock-free data structures

2013-10-24 Thread Andrew Francis
Hi Armin: On Thursday, October 24, 2013 4:38 AM, Armin Rigo wrote: >  I can't answer your questions without >knowing exactly what you're planning.  Sorry if I forgot, I know you >mentioned it several times here.  I still have a hard time figuring >out the real goal, rather than implementatio

Re: [pypy-dev] pypy-stm and lock-free data structures

2013-10-24 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Andrew, On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Andrew Francis wrote: > 1) Would I be using the pypy-stm branch? (because there is no GIL) > 2) Would I write some of this in RPython? (I am assuming yes) The pypy-stm branch has no GIL in the implementation, but its behavior is equivalent to the GIL.