On 26/08/2012 05:45 PM, Darren New wrote:
> (*) Yes, they would be, because a specific functionality built into the
> compiler and language are going to be simpler than a hand-crafted
> library in source code trying to provide the same functionality on top
> of a generic base.

This is really the central thing I disagree with.

STM is implementable as an external 3rd party library. (I have 
personally done this.) And yet, it works beautifully.

Just because something isn't hard-wired, doesn't mean it has to work 
badly or be hard to use.

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