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FPL
2010
Springer
155views Hardware» more  FPL 2010»
13 years 7 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 3 months 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
WDAG
2010
Springer
216views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
A Scalable Lock-Free Universal Construction with Best Effort Transactional Hardware
The imminent arrival of best-effort transactional hardware has spurred new interest in the construction of nonblocking data structures, such as those that require atomic updates to...
Francois Carouge, Michael F. Spear
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Supporting nested transactional memory in logTM
Nested transactional memory (TM) facilitates software composition by letting one module invoke another without either knowing whether the other uses transactions. Closed nested tr...
Michelle J. Moravan, Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore...
CONCUR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Perspectives on Transactional Memory
Abstract. We examine the role of transactional memory from two perspectives: that of a programming language with atomic actions and that of implementations of the language. We argu...
Martín Abadi, Tim Harris