Comment on The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New HardwareparentComments−pnathan13yAs a note, latch is also used in the hardware world[1]. It's used to implement memory and is often connected to a clock.It also was part of the conceptual idea of the very cool demo language ANIC[2].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch_%28electronics%29[2] http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial−sparky13yThat was the primary reason I was confused; "WTF does it mean for software to not use latches?" :)
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As a note, latch is also used in the hardware world[1]. It's used to implement memory and is often connected to a clock.
It also was part of the conceptual idea of the very cool demo language ANIC[2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch_%28electronics%29
[2] http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial
That was the primary reason I was confused; "WTF does it mean for software to not use latches?" :)