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SIGPLAN
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
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...
ACMMSP
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Many people have proposed adding transactions, or atomic blocks, to type-safe high-level programming languages. However, researchers have not considered the semantics of transacti...
WDAG
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
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...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
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...
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Concurrent collection classes are widely used in multi-threaded programming, but they provide atomicity only for a fixed set of operations. Software transactional memory (STM) pr...