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Transactional MemoryTransactional MemoryPosted Jun 4, 2009 9:44 UTC (Thu) by farnz (guest, #17727)In reply to: Transactional Memory by wahern Parent article: A look at two new languages: Vala and Clojure
For those who want to be accurate about it, STM moves responsibility for locking from the application developer to the STM implementor; the contract is that STM applications cannot deadlock, and as a quality of implementation issue, should not livelock. As with many things in programming, the hope is to trade off the possibility of more performance (given a high enough standard of programmer), for reliability now.
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