STMX
A high-performance implementation of composable Transactional Memory for Common Lisp, enabling easier concurrent programming.
What is STMX?
STMX is a high-performance implementation of composable Transactional Memory (TM) for Common Lisp, designed to simplify concurrent programming. It replaces traditional lock-based approaches with atomic memory transactions, which can be composed to build larger atomic operations, making concurrent code easier to write and understand by eliminating deadlocks and race conditions.
Common Lisp developers building concurrent applications who need to manage shared state safely and efficiently, particularly those targeting systems where performance and composability are critical.
Developers choose STMX for its high performance, especially when hardware acceleration (Intel TSX) is available, and its unique composability feature that allows smaller transactions to be combined into larger ones without modification, simplifying code reuse and integration.
Overview
High performance Transactional Memory for Common Lisp
Use Cases
Best For
- Implementing thread-safe data structures like transactional cells, lists, stacks, FIFOs, channels, hash tables, and sorted maps in Common Lisp.
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