<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Walter Bright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter@digitalmars.com">walter@digitalmars.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You might want to read about STM here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx#a4cfad7df-ed84-46a4-a961-54aafdaeb9d7" target="_blank">http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx#a4cfad7df-ed84-46a4-a961-54aafdaeb9d7</a><br>
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Essentially, it's a technology with too many fundamental problems.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Long read but doesn't explain why certain options got the complete thumbs down from an early point & not quite what I had in mind anyway. I do agree with pretty much everyone's need of message passing as a must have. It is clearly safer than many other alternatives. But I think at times other options although not better overall could be explored as they may well suit particular jobs.<br>
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