Pure and simple transaction memories
Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - September 12, 2006Now for a technical article.
How can several parallel programs maintain a consistent view of state. By this I mean how can two programs, possibly in different countries, manipulate common state variables in a consistent manner? How can they do so in a way that does not involve any locking?
The answer is surprisingly simple and incredibly beautiful and makes use of something called a transaction
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