Transactional Memory: History and Development

http://kukuruku.co/hub/cpp/transactional-memory-history-and-development

by nkurz • 12 years ago

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mattip• 12 years ago

There is work being done to get STM into python, but it is currently underfunded. See the complete proposal at http://pypy.org/tmdonate2.html

JIghtuse4• 12 years ago

There is also a good talk from the FOSDEM 2014 about STM in PyPy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0evRytGE0Y

Kelet• 12 years ago

An interesting read for someone interested in the performance characteristics of STM.

Atomic Quake: Using Transactional Memory in an Interactive Multiplayer Game Server

(pdf warning) http://www.bscmsrc.eu/sites/default/files/atomicquake-ppopp0...

bakhy• 12 years ago

<shameless plug> If anyone's interested in a full-featured transactional memory implementation for .NET, have a look: https://github.com/jbakic/Shielded ... It's more or less complete, feature-wise, and should be (ahem) bug free. </shameless plug>

jstclair• 12 years ago

Joe Duffy has a really interesting retrospective on his team's attempt to build a STM for .NET:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/01/03/a-brief-retrospective-on-...

JIghtuse4• 12 years ago

Weird. This article was originally written by me on Russian IT-resource habrahabr, here: http://habrahabr.ru/post/221667/. I don't see any link to it. Guys from kukuruku leaves only url on github, which shows it is my work. I'm not a fan of copyright or something, no blame on them. I would not mind if they attach a url to original article though. I was going to translate the article but now I leave it.

I study STM/HTM for my university work now, and this article is some kind of overview of technology.

JIghtuse4• 12 years ago

The second weird thing is that I compile an article from the English sources and translated them on Russian. Kukuruku folks translated them back to English, probably losing a bunch of meaning.

aeonsky• 12 years ago

The Russian is terrible too, reads like Google translate. They left in the "silver bullet" idiom, which makes zero sense in Russian.

sbahra• 12 years ago

Not cool at all if this is true. They gave you no obvious credit.

jacquesm• 12 years ago

A similar thing was done to another article from Habrahabr.ru.

Compare:

http://habrahabr.ru/company/ifree/blog/219201/

With:

http://kukuruku.co/hub/cpp/lock-free-data-structures-introdu...

The favicon also looks a bit familiar.

'made for hn'.

bajsejohannes• 12 years ago

Looks like this one is as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753166

(copy of http://habrahabr.ru/post/220841/)

And this one that showed up recently: http://kukuruku.co/hub/cpp/lock-free-data-structures-basics-...

(copy of http://habrahabr.ru/company/ifree/blog/195948/)

So that appears to be kukuruku's business model: Take articles from habrahabr, translate them (poorly) into English and publish them.

It's great that we get to see content that was previously only available in Russian, but I wish they would show more openly what they were doing. (I did actually wonder why their articles didn't have an author)

leephillips• 12 years ago

I went to the site and left a comment complaining about how they stole your article. They deleted the comment, and you still aren't credited. Does HN have a blacklist of sites that steal content or publish only blogspam? I think they should consider it.

chrisseaton• 12 years ago

There's a naive implementation of an STM in the concurrent-ruby gem that is a good overview of how an STM can work.

https://github.com/jdantonio/concurrent-ruby/wiki/TVar-(STM)

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