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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:22:12PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: > 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"? Software Transaction Memory -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff duff@pobox.comThread Previous | Thread Next