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SIGPLAN
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Single global lock semantics in a weakly atomic STM
As memory transactions have been proposed as a language-level replacement for locks, there is growing need for well-defined semantics. In contrast to database transactions, transa...
Vijay Menon, Steven Balensiefer, Tatiana Shpeisman...
FAST
2004
14 years 9 days ago
CAR: Clock with Adaptive Replacement
CLOCK is a classical cache replacement policy dating back to 1968 that was proposed as a low-complexity approximation to LRU. On every cache hit, the policy LRU needs to move the a...
Sorav Bansal, Dharmendra S. Modha
OPODIS
2008
14 years 10 days ago
Ordering-Based Semantics for Software Transactional Memory
It has been widely suggested that memory transactions should behave as if they acquired and released a single global lock. Unfortunately, this behavior can be expensive to achieve...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...