STM advice

[Paul Tarvydas]

I'm about to look into Software Transactional Memory techniques for some
financial code I'm involved with. Any advice about which libraries to
look at (and why) would be quite welcome.

Thanks
pt

[Scott L. Burson]

There is CL-STM. I haven't tried it, though, and know little about it.

If you do find a good STM library, you'll want a functional collections
library to go with it. This is for the same reason that Clojure uses
functional collections: you don't want to have to go outside the STM
framework to update collection-valued slots of objects. Permit me to
suggest FSet: http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/

It is Quicklisp-loadable: (ql:quickload "fset")

-- Scott

Post by Paul Tarvydas
I'm about to look into Software Transactional Memory techniques for some
financial code I'm involved with. Any advice about which libraries to look
at (and why) would be quite welcome.
Thanks
pt

[Faré]

Post by Scott L. Burson
There is CL-STM. I haven't tried it, though, and know little about it.
If you do find a good STM library, you'll want a functional collections
library to go with it. This is for the same reason that Clojure uses
functional collections: you don't want to have to go outside the STM
framework to update collection-valued slots of objects. Permit me to
suggest FSet: http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/
It is Quicklisp-loadable: (ql:quickload "fset")

And of course, there are also functional collections in LIL:
https://github.com/fare/lisp-interface-library

(FSet and LIL have very different styles and feel;
depending on your personality, you might prefer one or the other.
FSet is more of its own dialect of Lisp;
LIL is more of a peculiar way to use CLOS.)

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