Re: Concurrency: hypothetical variables and atomic blocks

Larry Wall wrote:
> The way I see it, the fundamental difference is that with ordinary
> locking, you're locking in real time, whereas with STM you potentially
> have the ability to virtualize time to see if there's a way to order
> the locks in virtual time such that they still make sense.  Then you
> just pretend that things happened in that order.

Forgive this ignorant soul; but what is "STM"?

-- 
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

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