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TX lock elision

TX lock elision

Posted Jan 26, 2026 6:22 UTC (Mon) by pthariensflame (subscriber, #169079)
In reply to: TX lock elision by josh
Parent article: GNU C Library 2.43 released

For whatever it's worth, (software) transactional memory has found genuine sustained use in one specific ecosystem: Haskell, in which the monad-based effect control makes it a lot less error-prone to use.

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TX lock elision

Posted Jan 27, 2026 1:49 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

I'm familiar (I used to program Haskell), but I also think it fits Haskell because it optimizes for compositional simplicity at the expense of performance.


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