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Weak ordering—a new definition
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Featherweight Java: a minimal core calculus for Java and GJ
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Cooperative Task Management Without Manual Stack Management
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Language support for lightweight transactions
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Composable memory transactions
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A transactional object calculus
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Preemptible Atomic Regions for Real-Time Java
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Types for safe locking: Static race detection for Java
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The Atomos transactional programming language
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Optimizing memory transactions
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Compiler and runtime support for efficient software transactional memory
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Effective static race detection for Java
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What do high-level memory models mean for transactions?
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Enforcing isolation and ordering in STM
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Subtleties of Transactional Memory Atomicity Semantics
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High-level small-step operational semantics for transactions
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Verifying Correctness of Transactional Memories
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Model checking transactional memories
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Practical weak-atomicity semantics for java stm
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Automatic Mutual Exclusion and Atomicity Checks
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Completeness and Nondeterminism in Model Checking Transactional Memories
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Dynamic optimization for efficient strong atomicity
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Feedback-directed barrier optimization in a strongly isolated STM
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Ordering-Based Semantics for Software Transactional Memory
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Software Transactional Memory (STM) is an attractive basis for the development of language features for concurrent programming. However, the semantics of these features can be delicate and problematic. In this article we explore the trade-offs semantic simplicity, the viability of efficient implementation strategies, and the flexibility of language constructs. Specifically, we develop semantics and type systems for the constructs of the Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME) programming model; our results apply also to other constructs, such as atomic blocks. With this semantics as a point of reference, we study several implementation strategies. We model STM systems that use in-place update, optimistic concurrency, lazy conflict detection, and rollback. These strategies are correct only under nontrivial assumptions that we identify and analyze. One important source of errors is that some efficient implementations create dangerous “zombie” computations where a transaction keeps running after experiencing a conflict; the assumptions confine the effects of these computations.