By now, I’ve read an awful lot of papers about STM sys­tems, and cer­tain trends are really start­ing to stand out, not so much in terms of the algo­rithms used or the clever schemes invented to make trans­ac­tions appear atomic, but in how they inter­face with the actual language.

It has really under­lined to me just how deeply entrenched most Java, C and C++ pro­gram­mers are in the imper­a­tive mind­set. (more…)