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| ===== Transactional Memory − A Short Introduction ===== | ===== Transactional Memory − A Short Introduction ===== | ||
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| hand-crafted, fine-grained locking. It is thus not surprising to see a | hand-crafted, fine-grained locking. It is thus not surprising to see a | ||
| large body of work dedicated towards implementing the paradigm and | large body of work dedicated towards implementing the paradigm and | ||
| - | exploring its limitations (see, e.g., | + | exploring its limitations. |
| - | [[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/trans-memory/biblio/index.html|the TM | + | |
| - | Bibliography page]]). | + | == How Good is a Transactional Memory Implementation? == |
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| + | We evaluate transactional memory (TM) implementations, both on theoretical and | ||
| + | experimental ground. We ask: | ||
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| + | * What are the inherent limitations and trade-offs of transactional memory, | ||
| + | * How expensive are some of the guarantees a TM implementation may provide, and | ||
| + | * Which algorithms/frameworks perform best. | ||
