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CAV
2009
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Transactional Memory: Glimmer of a Theory
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. This paper is an overview of our recent theoretical work on defining a theory of TM. We first recall s...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka
MASCOTS
2010
15 years 1 days ago
Modeling the Run-time Behavior of Transactional Memory
In this paper, we develop a queuing theory based analytical model to evaluate the performance of transactional memory. Based on the statistical characteristics observed on actual e...
Zhengyu He, Bo Hong
HIPC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Impact of early abort mechanisms on lock-based software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is an emerging concurrency control mechanism for shared memory accesses. Early abort is one of the important techniques to improve the executio...
Zhengyu He, Bo Hong
PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Toward a theory of transactional contention managers
In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon