Re: [pypy-dev] some stm links

2013-11-26 Thread Andrew Francis
Hi Carl: >An STM paper from OOPSLA 2003 won the "most influential paper award": >http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-ls4lt.pdf >Just though I'd throw these out there. I would recommend the book "Transactional Memory 2nd edition" (2010) by Harris, Larus, and Rajwar.  Cheers,

[pypy-dev] some stm links

2013-11-25 Thread Carl Friedrich Bolz
Hi all, during OOPSLA I came upon some papers/projects that may be relevant to the STM effort, that I found interesting (though I haven't read them in detail yet, just skimmed). IBM Research Japan is doing a project to try to eliminate the GIL of Ruby's C VM using HTM extensions of various proces