Re: RFC 178 (v2) Lightweight Threads

[Alan Burlison]

Chaim Frenkel wrote:

> No scanning. I was considering that all variables on a store would
> safe store the previous value in a thread specific holding area[*]. Then
> upon a deadlock/rollback, the changed values would be restored.
> 
> (This restoration should be valid, since the change could not have taken
> place without an exclusive lock on the variable.)
> 
> Then the execution stack and program counter would be reset to the
> checkpoint. And then restarted.

Sigh.  Think about references.  No, think harder.  See?

-- 
Alan Burlison