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HPCC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On the Performance of Commit-Time-Locking Based Software Transactional Memory
Compared with lock-based synchronization techniques, Software Transactional Memory (STM) can significantly improve the programmability of multithreaded applications. Existing res...
Zhengyu He, Bo Hong
MICRO
2010
IEEE
242views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 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
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
xCalls: safe I/O in memory transactions
Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...