STM

Recently, we visited MSR Cambridge(UK) to meet some of the great minds working there. In this case, we were fortunate enough to get an hour's time with Simon Peyton-Jones and Tim Harris, who are researchers working on a very hard problem: making it easier (more predictable, more reliable, more…

A few years ago I got the chance to learn about Software Transactional Memory for the first time while visiting MSR Cambridge. The great Simon Peyton-Jones and Tim Harris explained to me the thinking behind STM and how it might evolve. It was a tremendously interesting…

Software Transactional Memory is no longer a pipe dream or the stuff of academics. STM.NET, as it's called, is ready for your experimentation. The goal of STM.NET is to be able to exploit concurrency by using components written by experts and consumed by application programmers who can then…