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2 years ago

in Transactional Memory is the wrong path to concurrency on Phil Dawes' Stuff
I think he's right that it could get abused, but he's wrong to say it is therefore a Bad Thing. Database programmers and designers try to avoid contention but the locking and transactional mechanisms are there because it is unavoidable. Not being a multi-core programmer I don't know how well this analogy stretches but it seems to me that code should be shared-nothing as far as possible but that transactional memory is a Good Thing to have for those occasions when shared state is inevitable.

Probably a good thing that I don't write code anymore :-)

2 years ago

in Microsoft to support OpenID on Phil Dawes' Stuff
Malcolm and JP's blog tell you that your comment is awaiting moderation. Not sure about mine.

Anyway, can you delete one of my comments to stop me looking such a tit?

2 years ago

in Microsoft to support OpenID on Phil Dawes' Stuff
I have nothing interesting to say, I just wanted to leave a comment using my OpenID to sign in :-)

2 years ago

in Microsoft to support OpenID on Phil Dawes' Stuff
I have nothing interesting to say, I'm just using my OpenID to leave a comment for the sake of it :-)
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