Author: Remi Meier <remi.me...@inf.ethz.ch>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r5241:379da0f357d3
Date: 2014-05-05 17:00 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/379da0f357d3/
Log: add concluding sentence
diff --git a/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.pdf
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diff --git a/talk/icooolps2014/position-paper.tex
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@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
\section{The Way Forward}
-Following the above argumentation for each approach we assembled a
+Following the above argumentation for each approach, we assembled a
general overview in Table \ref{tab:comparison}. The general picture is
everything else than clear. It looks like HTM may be a good solution
to replace the GIL in the near future. Current implementations are
@@ -446,10 +446,15 @@
approach, initial results suggest that we can keep the overhead of STM
well below 50\%. A hybrid TM system, which also uses HTM to accelerate
certain tasks, looks like a very promising direction of research
-too. We believe that further work to reduce the overhead of STM is
-very worthwhile.
+too.
-
+We believe that further work to reduce the overhead of STM is
+very worthwhile. In fact, considering some analogies that have been
+drawn between garbage collection and transactional memory \cite{dan07},
+we believe that it is worthwhile to focus the STM research more
+specifically on the context shown in this paper --- for use in
+implementations of high-level languages, rather than as a tool
+directly used by the programmer.
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@@ -475,6 +480,12 @@
\begin{thebibliography}{}
\softraggedright
+\bibitem{dan07}
+ Dan Grossman. 2007. The transactional memory / garbage collection
+ analogy. \emph{In Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN
+ conference on Object-oriented programming systems and
+ applications} (OOPSLA '07).
+
\bibitem{webjython}
The Jython Project, \url{www.jython.org}
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