[toronto-lisp] multi-core CL STM

[doug at hcsw.org]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:37:19PM -0500 or thereabouts, Paul Tarvydas wrote:
> If anyone is not a member of the LispWork lisp-hug mailing list and is interested in multi-core STM, check out Dave McClain's thread entitled "STM":
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> http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html
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> As someone pointed out, the complete multi-core CL implementation of STM fits in one email...

David McClain's code looks really interesting. This doesn't surprise me
because I've corresponded with David before and he works on lots of really
cool stuff.

Antiweb applications also use STM pretty heavily via the Berkeley DB library.
I've probably pasted this link before, but here it is again just in case:

http://hoytech.com/transactional-programming.html

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> pt
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> [may include hoyteisms].

Uh oh, not that Hoyte guy again... ;)