Clojure: It’s About the Libraries

Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by arohner on Thursday April 30, 2009 @02:27PM (#587203)

if anything saves imperative programming it will be transactional memory, which is exremely hard. hardware TM and code written for TM are in a chicken-and-egg situation. the answer is hybrid hardware/software TM and the sun guys are way ahead on this too.

What's interesting is STM is only hard in imperative languages. It's relatively straightforward in Clojure and Haskell. See http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/the-problem-with-stm-...

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Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by zzygan on Thursday April 30, 2009 @09:19PM (#587869)

Also recently there was a very interesting article in Communications of the ACM about STM vs HTM and the problems with both in a general sense.

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1410000/1400228/p40-cascaval...

Edit: Prettier version http://mags.acm.org/communications/200811/?folio=40&CFID...

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Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by benreesman on Thursday April 30, 2009 @02:44PM (#587242)

Awesome article! Also check out ch. 24 of Beautiful Code, which is about implementing STM in Haskell.

<brag>Now seems like a reasonable chance to brag that Doug Crockford signed my copy of BC the other day! God I'm such a geek.</brag>

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