STM - a concurrency control mechanism

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Author: Andy Sy
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Subject: STM - a concurrency control mechanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory

This is an interesting new alternative to the traditional
lock-based multi-threaded programming paradigm. It is
modeled after transactions in the database and file
system sense.


Apparently the Relisoft people are also hot on D and
are lobbying to bring STM to this language:

http://www.relisoft.com/D/STM_pptx_files/v3_document.htm



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