Re: Software Transactional Memory interaction with Garbage Collection

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Vilain wrote: Hi all, While I must start this post out by saying that I've never implemented either STM or a garbage collector, during a discussion on #parrot (is that channel logged?), a similarity between the two processes occurred to me. Not really. STM is a scheme to handle access t

Software Transactional Memory interaction with Garbage Collection

2005-06-03 Thread Sam Vilain
Hi all, While I must start this post out by saying that I've never implemented either STM or a garbage collector, during a discussion on #parrot (is that channel logged?), a similarity between the two processes occurred to me. Would this be an adequate expression of a generational Garbage C