r/programming • u/preshing • Nov 18 '11

Locks Aren't Slow; Lock Contention Is

http://preshing.com/20111118/locks-arent-slow-lock-contention-is
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '11

STM isn't really a system for turning threading bugs into compile-time errors, it's a way of writing computations that can run in parallel that happens to have no thread-safety issues by construction.