Transactional Memory (TM) is a high level abstraction for supporting a safe mutable shared state, such that the user does not have to worry about the low-level details of locking and sharing of global resources. It is basically a class of optimistic speculation techniques such that groups of memory operations are bundled as an atomic operation such that it can resolves the problems with locks, possibly support composability. The basic idea is to move your group of atomic operations through, assuming that it will be successful, and only rollback... [More]

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