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ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 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
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding Tradeoffs in Software Transactional Memory
There has been a flurry of recent work on the design of high performance software and hybrid hardware/software transactional memories (STMs and HyTMs). This paper reexamines the ...
David Dice, Nir Shavit
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Unbounded Transactional Memory
Hardware transactional memory should support unbounded transactions: transactions of arbitrary size and duration. We describe a hardware implementation of unbounded transactional ...
C. Scott Ananian, Krste Asanovic, Bradley C. Kuszm...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
158views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
STM versus lock-based systems: an energy consumption perspective
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...
Felipe Klein, Alexandro Baldassin, Joao Moreira, P...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Case for Deconstructing Hardware Transactional Memory Systems
Major hardware and software vendors are curious about transactional memory (TM), but are understandably cautious about committing to hardware changes. Our thesis is that deconstru...
Mark D. Hill, Derek Hower, Kevin E. Moore, Michael...