Quotes About Multicore

But if you ask me, is STM better than locks and condition variables? Now you're comparing like with like. Yes. I think it completely dominates locks and condition variables. So just forget locks and condition variables. For multiple program counters, multiple threads, diddling on shared memory on a shared-memory multicore: STM. But is that the only way to write concurrent programs? Absolutely not.

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

SERVICES The strongest boundary is a service. A service is a process, generally started from the command line or through an equivalent system call. Services do not depend on their physical location. Two communicating services may, or may not, operate in the same physical processor or multicore. The services assume that all communications take place over the network.