Re: Concurrency: hypothetical variables and atomic blocks

Daniel Hulme wrote:

>>How does an atomic block differ from one in which all variables are
>>implicitly hypotheticalized?
>>    
>>
>I assume that the atomicness being controlled by some kind of lock on
>entry, it also applies to I/O and other side-effecty things that you
>can't undo.
>

The lock on entry approach will only be for non-threaded interpreters
that don't know how to do real STM.

Sam.

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