46 September 2008 ACM QUEUE rants: feedback@acmqueue.comsoftware
transactional transactionalmemorywhy is it
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toy?ACM QUEUE September 2008 47 more queue: www.acmqueue.comCălin Ca̧scaval, Colin Blundell,
Maged Michael, Harold W. Cain,
Peng Wu, Stefanie Chiras,
and Siddhartha ChatterjeeThe overhead posed by STM may likely overshadow its promise.TM (transactional memory)1 is a concurrency control paradigm that provides atomic
and isolated execution for regions of code. TM
