I think I already came to the same conclusion... JavaScript has no control over effects, which devalues STM. In the absence of effect control, apparent serialisation (of transactions) is the best you can do. What we need is a purely functional JavaScript, it makes threading so much easier ;-) Cheers, Keean. On 10 January 2011 23:42, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > STM is not a panacea. Read > http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetrospectiveOnTransactionalMemory.aspxif you haven't already. > > In Haskell, where you have powerful control over effects, it may work well, > but Javascript isn't anything like that. > > Rob > -- > "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for > they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures > every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11] >Received on Tuesday, 11 January 2011 09:10:51 UTC
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