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POPL
2011
ACM
14 years 14 days ago
Safe nondeterminism in a deterministic-by-default parallel language
A number of deterministic parallel programming models with strong safety guarantees are emerging, but similar support for nondeterministic algorithms, such as branch and bound sea...
Robert L. Bocchino Jr., Stephen Heumann, Nima Hona...
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VLDB
2002
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Lightweight Flexible Isolation for Language-based Extensible Systems
Safe programming languages encourage the development of dynamically extensible systems, such as extensible Web servers and mobile agent platforms. Although protection is of utmost...
Laurent Daynès, Grzegorz Czajkowski
PLDI
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Optimizing memory transactions
Atomic blocks allow programmers to delimit sections of code as ‘atomic’, leaving the language’s implementation to enforce atomicity. Existing work has shown how to implement...
Timothy L. Harris, Mark Plesko, Avraham Shinnar, D...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Early experience with a commercial hardware transactional memory implementation
We report on our experience with the hardware transactional memory (HTM) feature of two pre-production revisions of a new commercial multicore processor. Our experience includes a...
David Dice, Yossi Lev, Mark Moir, Daniel Nussbaum
SMALLTALK
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Transactional memory for smalltalk
Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously difficult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...
Lukas Renggli, Oscar Nierstrasz