Cees de Groot wrote:
> Stephen's transaction code (Kats, wasn't it?)? Or at least we might 
> want  to split up the loading and installing parts; load in the 
> background, then  pop up a window "click here to install" that freezes 
> the UI for safety's  sake.

That sounds better than the current setup. I like Lex's idea of 
downloading and installing in two parallel threads, too.

There's been some neat stuff done recently on transactional memory - see 
http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/stm/ for details. I'm 
looking forward to the day such a system is available in my favourite 
programming environment :-)

Tony
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