Software transactional memory: why is it only a research toy?

  • Authors:
  • Calin Cascaval;Colin Blundell;Maged Michael;Harold W. Cain;Peng Wu;Stefanie Chiras;Siddhartha Chatterjee

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;University of Pennsylvania;IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM's Systems and Technology Group;IBM Research, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Remembering Jim Gray
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The promise of STM may likely be undermined by its overheads and workload applicabilities.