On 4/23/2012 0:59, Invisible wrote:
>>> I think it's probably vacuous to try to estimate how "useful" it would be
>>> without actually trying it...
>>
>> Well, they tried making STM work on .NET and gave up because of all the
>> state, if you remember.
>
> They gave up because they tried to make all the existing state mutation
> stuff still work in the presence of transactions, which is /obviously/
> impossible.

That's my point.  How useful would it be if you couldn't actually use any of 
the other .NET libraries, including even I/O, reflection, etc.?

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