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Software Transactional Memory in Clojure (ociweb.com)
76 points by llambda on Feb 25, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



If you want to learn about STM, I recommend Simon Peyton-Jones' Beautiful Concurrency, which is a chapter of the Beautiful Code book:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74063/beautiful.pdf


Are there any benchmarks for parallel algorithms done with/without STM? What is the performance hit?




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