STM Commentary

[Carter Schonwald]

you have access to hardware for testing HTM? I thought haswell wasn't
publicly available yet...


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ryan Yates <fryguybob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!  I'll work on getting it onto the wiki soon.  My next step is to
> apply hardware transactions to improve STM performance.  For this I will
> need to collect some meaningful STM benchmarks.  If anyone has some
> particular use cases or code where they would like to see improved STM
> performance on I would love to know.  There are several potential
> improvements to the existing STM performance that I will also investigate
> along the way.
>
> Ryan
>
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> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <
> simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>  Ryan****
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>> Great stuff.  What you have is almost certainly more accurate, complete,
>> and up to date than anything else we have, so thank you.  As others have
>> said, putting it on the GHC wiki would be much the best place.****
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>> Perhaps here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/STM
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>> Simon****
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>> *From:* ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org]
>> *On Behalf Of *Ryan Yates
>> *Sent:* 17 May 2013 21:06
>> *To:* ghc-devs at haskell.org
>> *Cc:* Michael L. Scott
>> *Subject:* STM Commentary****
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>> Hi all,****
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>> For a while now I've been working on understanding GHC's STM
>> implementation and I finally have something to share.  I've written a
>> commentary on the implementation which can be found here:****
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>> http://fryguybob.github.io/STM-Commentary/****
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>> The source is here:****
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>> https://github.com/fryguybob/STM-Commentary/****
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>> It still could use a bit of polish and I would love to hear about any
>> missing details, confusion, or misunderstandings.  My goal in writing this
>> was to fill in the gap found here
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/STM.  I happy to
>> have it live where it is most appropriate.  If anyone has opinions on that,
>> let me know.****
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>> Any comments are welcome, it may be easiest to just comment on the source
>> directly on Github, but I will, of course, take feedback in any form.****
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>> Thanks,****
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>> Ryan Yates****
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