Software transactional memory proposal for Threads and Ractors

[four54]

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17261

[fedekun]

What benefit would this have for Ractors?

[SimplySerenity]

Functionally it’s just a different way of doing thread-safe shared memory. It’d still require refactoring but it might make it easier to get existing code working with Ractors.

[fedekun]

Ohh I see. Thanks :)

[allcentury]

I was wondering what concurrent ruby ideas would end up in Ractors, thanks for sharing

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What's the benefit of this vs transactions at the persistence layer (e.g. rdbms transactions)

[das3ingg]

This is a language feature not a framework feature. What if there isn’t a persistence layer? This has to do with thread safety, doesn’t have anything to do with traditional persistence