[BangPypers] [pythonpune] Cool developments on the PyPy front

[zaki at manian.org]

In general using STM for shared state concurrency in everything is mutable
languages like python seems to be destined for failure. Haskell and Clojure
both limit mutability and can use STM effectively. The C# team put
extraordinary effort into doing a STM for the CLR and failed miserably.

It looks like we need to either port the object level locking capability of
the JVM and CLR to python to kill the GIL or python needed new semantics
around mutability.



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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Apparently PyPy is going to lose the GIL and implement locking via STM
> > >
>
> The world of databases immediately striked me, as soon as I read the
> word 'transaction'. STM seems a good extension to that much testing
> concept to a much lower level at the translation stage. Interesting.
>
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> Senthil
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