Re: Automatic parallelization - was Re: LISP Object Oriented?

"de" == fortunatus <daniel.eliason@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

de> Has anyone thought about implementing a Software Transactional
de> Memory system in Lisp? I'm curious about thoughts on whether it
de> can be done at the language level (with macros, etc) or whether
de> under- the-hood support would be needed from the
de> implementation... assuming of course that the implementation
de> already provides threads.

<http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-stm/>

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Eric Marsden
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