Transactional memory

The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to coordinate concurrent threads. The ACI (atom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larus, James R.
Other Authors: Rajwar, Ravi.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Synthesis lectures on computer architecture (Online) ; #2.
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