[pypy-dev] STM/AME for CPython?

[Andrew Francis]

Hi Armin:



________________________________
 From: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> 
Cc: pypy-dev at python.org 
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] STM/AME for CPython?
 
>Actually I think we need foremost a new name.  This is not about doing
>great things in any of the domains you list.  It has no obvious
>connexion to any separation of metadata, security, capability,
>distributed update, mobile, or any other specific environment. This is
>merely about adding a new one-liner API usable by programs in order to
>behave as if they were run serially, but actually run on multiple
>cores.  So even using the name "STM" is rather wrong and confusing:
>STM is only one possible implementation.

To me the goal  is to create a simple, non-evasive (an
aspect being composability) clutter free form of concurrency. In short a Pythonic
approach.

A suggestion: Pythonic Concrrency Control : PCC or PyCC

Cheers,
Andrew
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