I'm about to look into Software Transactional Memory techniques for some financial code I'm involved with. Any advice about which libraries to look at (and why) would be quite welcome.
Thanks pt
There is CL-STM. I haven't tried it, though, and know little about it.
If you do find a good STM library, you'll want a functional collections library to go with it. This is for the same reason that Clojure uses functional collections: you don't want to have to go outside the STM framework to update collection-valued slots of objects. Permit me to suggest FSet: http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/
It is Quicklisp-loadable: (ql:quickload "fset")
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On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Paul Tarvydas paultarvydas@gmail.comwrote:
I'm about to look into Software Transactional Memory techniques for some financial code I'm involved with. Any advice about which libraries to look at (and why) would be quite welcome.
Thanks pt
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Scott L. Burson Scott@sympoiesis.com wrote:
There is CL-STM. I haven't tried it, though, and know little about it.
If you do find a good STM library, you'll want a functional collections library to go with it. This is for the same reason that Clojure uses functional collections: you don't want to have to go outside the STM framework to update collection-valued slots of objects. Permit me to suggest FSet: http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/
It is Quicklisp-loadable: (ql:quickload "fset")
And of course, there are also functional collections in LIL: https://github.com/fare/lisp-interface-library
(FSet and LIL have very different styles and feel; depending on your personality, you might prefer one or the other. FSet is more of its own dialect of Lisp; LIL is more of a peculiar way to use CLOS.)
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