What kinds of applications can benefit from transactional memory?

  • Authors:
  • Mark Moir;Dan Nussbaum

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Labs at Oracle, Burlington, MA;Sun Labs at Oracle, Burlington, MA

  • Venue:
  • ISCA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computer Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We discuss the current state of research on transactional memory, with a focus on what characteristics of applications may make them more or less likely to be able to benefit from using transactional memory, and how this issue can and should influence ongoing and future research.