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ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding transactional memory performance
Abstract—Transactional memory promises to generalize transactional programming to mainstream languages and data structures. The purported benefit of transactions is that they ar...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
JudoSTM: A Dynamic Binary-Rewriting Approach to Software Transactional Memory
With the advent of chip-multiprocessors, we are faced with the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical software. Transactional memory (TM) has emerged as a promising progr...
Marek Olszewski, Jeremy Cutler, J. Gregory Steffan
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
StealthTest: Low Overhead Online Software Testing Using Transactional Memory
—Software testing is hard. The emergence of multicore architectures and the proliferation of bugprone multithreaded software makes testing even harder. To this end, researchers h...
Jayaram Bobba, Weiwei Xiong, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hil...
IISWC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the (dis)similarity of transactional memory workloads
— Programming to exploit the resources in a multicore system remains a major obstacle for both computer and software engineers. Transactional memory offers an attractive alternat...
Clay Hughes, James Poe, Amer Qouneh, Tao Li