[Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code - Lock-free data structures

[Ben Gamari]

Ben <midfield at gmail.com> writes:

> perhaps it is too late to suggest things for GSOC --
>
> but stephen tetley on a different thread pointed at aaron turon's
> work, which there's a very interesting new concurrency framework he
> calls "reagents" which seems to give the best of all worlds : it is
> declarative and compositional like STM, but gives performance akin to
> hand-coded lock-free data structures.  he seems to have straddled the
> duality of isolation vs message-passing nicely, and can subsume things
> like actors and the join calculus.
>
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/turon/reagents.pdf
>
> he has a BSD licensed library in scala at
>
> https://github.com/aturon/ChemistrySet
>
> if someone doesn't want to pick this up for GSOC i might have a hand
> at implementing it myself.
>
Keep use in the loop if you do. I have a very nice application that has
been needing a nicer approach to concurrency than IORefs but
really can't afford STM.

Cheers,

- Ben