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• How good is your favourite programming language?

  ...it depends... Well yeah, of course it does. "Good" means nothing at all without "good at what". Three of the key metrics are of course: speed memory consumption size of the code base Here is a very nice website that let's you weight what you are interested Read More... Posted Monday, December 31, 2007 8:30 AM by Carl Rosenberger | 7 Comments Filed under: STM, Scala, Java, Programmming Languages, Actors, Haskell, Erlang

• Ralf's Software Transactional Memory

  Some weeks ago I talked to Ralph Westphal about Software Transactional Memory. Apparently he liked the idea so he simply wrote his own implementation . Amazing. The code of Ralf's implementation is very nice to understand: Ralf uses a Dictionary to associate Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:11 AM by Carl Rosenberger | 1 Comments Filed under: Atomic, Monitor, Lock, STM, parallel

• The future is parallel

  Catherine Crawford asks: "Where's The Software To Catch Up To Multicore Computing?" . Indeed, parallel hardware requires new software concepts. Today I read about PLINQ, Parallel LINQ on Joe Duffy's weblog. He also links to a new book on Transactional Read More... Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 4:04 AM by Carl Rosenberger | 0 Comments Filed under: Atomic, STM, parallel

• Software Transactional Memory

  The following is likely to be the future of concurrent programming: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=231495 Simon Peyton-Jones and Tim Harris explain how locks and monitors can be replaced by a beautiful simple concept that scales very nicely Read More... Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:32 PM by Carl Rosenberger | 3 Comments Filed under: Atomic, Monitor, Lock, STM