Transactional Memory (TM) is emerging as a promising technology to simplify parallel
programming. While several TM systems have been proposed in the research literature, we …

The current generation of software transactional memories has the advantage of being
simple and efficient. Nevertheless, there are several parameters that affect the performance …

Software transactional memory: why is it only a research toy? Page 1 40 communications of the
acm | NovEmbER 2008 | vol. 51 | No. 11 practice trAnsActionAL MEMorY (TM)13 is a …

This paper describes an end-to-end system implementation of the transactional memory
(TM) programming model on top of the hardware transactional memory (HTM) of the Blue …

We describe a methodology for transforming a large class of highly-concurrent linearizable
objects into highly-concurrent transactional objects. As long as the linearizable …

Software transactional memory (STM) is a concurrency control mechanism that is widely
considered to be easier to use by programmers than other mechanisms such as locking. The …

Transactional memory systems are expected to enable parallel programming at lower
programming complexity, while delivering improved performance over traditional lock-based …

Many synchronizations in existing multi-threaded programs are implemented in an ad hoc
way. The first part of this paper does a comprehensive characteristic study of ad hoc …

AMD's Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an x86 instruction set extension proposal
intended to simplify and speed up the synchronization of concurrent programs. In this paper …

Multiprocessor deterministic replay has many potential uses in the era of multicore
computing, including enhanced debugging, fault tolerance, and intrusion detection. While …