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ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 1 months ago
2012
Springer
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
WDAG
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
Software transactional memory (STM) guarantees that a transaction, consisting of a sequence of operations on the memory, appears to be executed atomically. In practice, it is impor...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Operating systems can efficiently provide system transactions to user applications, in which user-level processes can execute a series of system calls atomically and in isolation ...
ICA3PP
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2005
Springer
Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications...
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...