Why STM can be more than a research toy

Authors:
Aleksandar Dragojević;Pascal Felber;Vincent Gramoli;Rachid Guerraoui
Affiliations:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland;École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Despite earlier claims, Software Transactional Memory outperforms sequential code.