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Re: New interesting application of Transactional Memory forsingle-threading

On Oct 23, 11:32*pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.comwrote:
But what's new about this use? *Database transactions have been used for
this for a long time now.
If everybody is already informed about such usage then sorry and just
ignore this post. Although for me it was new and I read tens of papers/
articles/presentations on TM...

Dmitriy V'jukov
Oct 23 '08 #1
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Dmitriy V'jukov wrote:
On Oct 23, 11:32 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.comwrote:
>But what's new about this use? Database transactions have been used for
this for a long time now.

If everybody is already informed about such usage then sorry and just
ignore this post. Although for me it was new and I read tens of papers/
articles/presentations on TM...
TM is still in its infancy, but the use of transactions to ensure atomic
operations is well established.

I guess the most basic use in C++ is as an extension of RAII, which on
the surface performs the same function as your example.

--
Ian Collins
Oct 23 '08 #2
Ian Collins wrote:
TM is still in its infancy...
In what sense? People started implementing it in dedicated hardware over two
decades ago...

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u
Oct 31 '08 #3

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