Re: Re[2]: important news: refocusing discussion

On 2006-03-28, Taral wrote:

On 3/27/06, Ross Paterson wrote:

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How about STM (minus retry/orElse) and TVars as the portable interface? They're trivial for a single-threaded implementation, and provide a comfortable interface for everyone.

+1 on STM as the core interface. Why do you suggest omitting retry/orElse?

-1. STM is a cool little abstraction making it easy to write dead-lock free code. I haven't wrapped my head around writing _quick_ dead-lock free code, where as the MVar model has all sorts of abstractions built that make that, well, not _easy_, but the difficulties are understood. -- Aaron Denney -><-