We have developed SwissTM: an STM that has the goal of performing particularly well with realistic workloads, with various transaction sizes and mixed access pattern, while still achieving good performance in more traditional microbenchmarks.
The following files are available for download.
Older versions:
Dragojevic A., Guerraoui, R., and Kapalka, M.. (2009) Stretching Transactional Memory. Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Conference on Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI).
Dragojevic A., Felber P., Gramoli V., Guerraoui R. (2011) Why STM can be more than a Research Toy. Communications of the ACM (CACM).