Needed: foundations for transactional memory

  • Authors:
  • Hagit Attiya

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Transactional memory is a leading paradigm for designing concurrent applications for tomorrow's multi-core architectures. It follows and draws much inspiration from earlier research on concurrent data structures and concurrency control. Quite remarkably, it has succeeded in breaking out of the research community, and is being seriously considered by the industry---both as part of software solutions and as the basis for novel hardware designs.