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Re: Microsoft to support OpenID

http://www.dominicsayers.com — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:44:24 -0000

I have nothing interesting to say, I'm just using my OpenID to leave a comment for the sake of it :-)

Re: Microsoft to support OpenID

http://www.dominicsayers.com — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:45:14 -0000

I have nothing interesting to say, I just wanted to leave a comment using my OpenID to sign in :-)

Re: Microsoft to support OpenID

http://www.dominicsayers.com — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:35:32 -0000

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?

Re: Transactional Memory is the wrong path to concurrency

http://www.dominicsayers.com — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:46:44 -0000

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 :-)