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pnathan on April 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware

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

sparky on April 10, 2013 [–]

That was the primary reason I was confused; "WTF does it mean for software to not use latches?" :)

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