Virtues and limitations of commodity hardware transactional memory

Over the last years Transactional Memory (TM) gained growing popularity as a simpler, attractive alternative to classic lock-based synchronization schemes. Recently, the TM landscape has been profoundly changed by the integration of Hardware TM (HTM) in Intel commodity processors, raising a number o...

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Published in:	PACT '14 : proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : August 24-27, 2014, Edmonton, AB, Canada pp. 3 - 14
Main Authors:	Diegues, Nuno, Romano, Paolo, Rodrigues, Luis
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	ACM 01.08.2014
Subjects:	Empirical Study Energy Efficiency Hardware Instruments Power demand Program processors Programming Synchronization Synchronization Techniques Transactional Memory
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