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PODC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The obstruction-free Dynamic Software Transactional Memory (DSTM) system of Herlihy et al. allows only one transaction at a time to acquire an object for writing. Should a second ...
PPOPP
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper takes a step toward developing a theory for understanding aborts in transactional memory systems (TMs). Existing TMs may abort many transactions that could, in fact, co...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
The shift towards multicore processors and the well-known drawbacks imposed by lock-based synchronization have forced researchers to devise new alternatives for building concurren...
WDAG
2010
Springer
13 years 3 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...