Session: Using All These Cores: Transactional Memory in PyPy

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Location:
B07/B08
Duration:
July 23, 2014 11:00 - 11:45
Language:
English
Target-audience:
Advanced

PyPy, the Python implementation written in Python, experimentally supports Transactional Memory (TM). The strength of TM is to enable a novel use of multithreading, inheritently safe, and not limited to special use cases like other approaches. This talk will focus on how it works under the hood.

http://pypy.org/talk/ep2014-stm.html

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