Transactions: good or bad?
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:00:53 GMT
Message-ID: <pyora.664367$L1.189041_at_sccrnsc02>
I've always thought of transactions as being a good thing. It seems to me that there are various synchronization mechanisms out there: mutexes, semaphores, Java synchronization, etc., but that transactions are actually the highest level synchronization mechanism I've encountered.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:00:53 GMT
Message-ID: <pyora.664367$L1.189041_at_sccrnsc02>
I've always thought of transactions as being a good thing. It seems to me that there are various synchronization mechanisms out there: mutexes, semaphores, Java synchronization, etc., but that transactions are actually the highest level synchronization mechanism I've encountered.
But recently I read that "transactions ... are not compatible with the 'arrow of time'. They let you freeze time and that is not a good model of reality."
Any comments?
Marshall Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 08:00:53 CEST