"Jason Johnson" jason.johnson.081@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/23/07, Peter William Lount peter@smalltalk.org wrote:
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Concurrency isn't like automatic garbage collection - which is actually quite broad and complex a field - at all.
*sigh*. Ok, if you're going to respond to things I say, please read what I write. Speed reading obviously isn't working. I said message passing is *ANALOGOUS*.
Interestingly enough, there was a paper at OOPSLA titled "The transactional memory/garbage collection analogy":
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1297080&jmp=abstract&coll=port...
(The URL requires an ACM subscription to read.)
The abstract reads:
This essay presents remarkable similarities between transactional memory and garbage collection. The connections are fascinating in their own right, and they let us better understand one technology by thinking about the corresponding issues for the other.
frank