ClojureTxTk

Groups audience:

BDP [1]

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Keywords:

parallelism

concurrency

Software Transactional Memory

Description

Description:

ClojureTxTk is a fork of Clojure, in which its Software Transactional Memory is extended with support for Transactional Tasks. A "transactional task" is a thread that was created in a software transaction. Hence, ClojureTxTk allows you to create threads inside transactions, that allow you to modify the transactional state, while these changes are part of the encompassing transaction.

Examples:

Two programs written using ClojureTxTk are available on GitHub [2] and in here [3]:

LabyrinthTxTk finds non-overlapping paths in a grid. It uses transactional tasks to implement a parallel search algorithm, in its transactions.
BayesTxTk learns the structure of a Bayesian network given observed data. It uses transactional tasks to speed up the calculations that occur in its transactions.

Download:

ClojureTxTk is available on GitHub [4]. You can also find more information on this page [3].

Publications:

Janwillem Swalens, Joeri De Koster, & Wolfgang De Meuter. 2016. Transactional Tasks: Parallelism in Software Transactions [5]. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016).