Open AccessComputer Science

Software transactional memory

N. Shavit, D. Touitou

1995.8.20DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

DOI: 10.1007/s004460050028

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STM is used to provide a general highly concurrent method for translating sequential object implementations to non-blocking ones based on implementing a k-word compare&swap STM-transaction, and outperforms Herlihy’s translation method for sufficiently large numbers of processors.

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SHAVIT, N.; TOUITOU, D. Software transactional memory. DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, 1995, 10: 99–116.