A Brief Retrospective on Software Transactional Memory (2010) (joeduffyblog.com) 2 points by fire_lake 2y ago ↗ HN
[–] mrkeen 2y ago ↗ Love STM. I use it whenever I can.It's the poster-child for the XY-problem. Whatever problem caused you to mess around with locks and synchronised blocks, is probably a problem that you wanted to solve with transactions.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 13.0 ms ] threadIt's the poster-child for the XY-problem. Whatever problem caused you to mess around with locks and synchronised blocks, is probably a problem that you wanted to solve with transactions.