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FM
2001
Springer
99views Formal Methods» more  FM 2001»
14 years 1 months ago
Transacted Memory for Smart Cards
Transacted Memory offers persistence, undoability and auditing. We present a Java/JML Reference Model of the Transacted Memory system on the basis of our earlier separate Z model...
Pieter H. Hartel, Michael J. Butler, Eduard de Jon...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
137views Hardware» more  ISCA 1993»
14 years 23 days ago
Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
Maurice Herlihy, J. Eliot B. Moss
ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Lifting the Barriers - Reducing Latencies with Transparent Transactional Memory
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann
CGO
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Understanding Tradeoffs in Software Transactional Memory
There has been a flurry of recent work on the design of high performance software and hybrid hardware/software transactional memories (STMs and HyTMs). This paper reexamines the ...
David Dice, Nir Shavit
PPOPP
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Composable memory transactions
Writing concurrent programs is notoriously difficult, and is of increasing practical importance. A particular source of concern is n correctly-implemented concurrency abstraction...
Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon L. Peyton Jones, M...