The Transactional Memory / Garbage Collection Analogy

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Wed, 09/17/2008 - 10:37

Courtesy of my shiny new commute, I have been listing to various podcasts, including Software Engineering Radio .

A while back, they had an interview with Dan Grossman on his OOPSLA 2007 paper, which I have not seen discussed here.

The Transactional Memory / Garbage Collection Analogy is an essay comparing transactional memory with garbage collection based on the analogy:

Transactional memory (TM) is to shared-memory concurrency
as
garbage collection (GC) is to memory management....


 

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