On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Krukow <karl.kru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Final question. The docs say that 'ensure' permits more concurrency
> than promoting the ref to a write. Is there a quick/simple way of
> explaining how? (Or do I need to go to the source :-)

If you have multiple transactions ensuring the same var but
no transactions changing it, all those transactions can
proceed simultaneously.  If they all did dummy writes
instead of ensure, they could only proceed in order.

--Chouser

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