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thundara  ·  4648 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Massive non-parallel core programming
PyPy's been working on this with its software transaction memory research. I'm curious whether this will result in analyzing the probabilistic chance of inconsistent writes/reads in code the development of algorithms that minimize them.

Edit: I should note, though, that STM still results in some determinism in code, it just causes sections to be re-run when they notice that their memory was changed underneath them.

Edit#2: And he addresses the idea of probabilistic algorithms, too, cool! Neat article!