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Kcas: Building a Lock-Free STM for OCaml (2/2)
This is the follow-up post continuing the discussion of the development of Kcas. Part 1 discussed the development done on the library to improve performance and add a transaction mechanism that makes it easy to compose atomic operations without really adding more expressive power. In this part we'll…
Principal Software Engineer
Kcas: Building a Lock-Free STM for OCaml (1/2)
In the past few months I've had the pleasure of working on the Kcas library. In this and a follow-up post, I will discuss the history and more recent development process of optimising Kcas and turning it into a proper Software Transactional Memory (STM) implementation for OCaml. While this is not me…
Principal Software Engineer
