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CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 2 months ago
Faster Approximate Distance Queries and Compact Routing in Sparse Graphs
A distance oracle is a compact representation of the shortest distance matrix of a graph. It can be queried to retrieve approximate distances and corresponding paths between any p...
Rachit Agarwal, Brighten Godfrey, Sariel Har-Peled
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Language constructs for transactional memory
Transactional memory (TM) provides a safer, more modular, and more scalable alternative to traditional lock-based synchronization. Implementing high performance TM systems has rec...
Tim Harris
FPL
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Design and Implementation of Real-Time Transactional Memory
Transactional memory is a promising, optimistic synchronization mechanism for chip-multiprocessor systems. The simplicity of atomic sections, instead of using explicit locks, is al...
Martin Schoeberl, Peter Hilber
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy
This essay presents remarkable similarities between transactional memory and garbage collection. The connections are fascinating in their own right, and they let us better underst...
Dan Grossman
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Brief announcement: single-version permissive STM
We present a single-version STM that satisfies a practical notion of permissiveness: it never aborts read-only transactions, and it only aborts an update transaction due to anothe...
Hagit Attiya, Eshcar Hillel