The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. It’s hard to say what all ...

Executing a notion of a transaction, and doing it without any such locks, is also one of the attributes of transactional memory. Before I go on, although the term transactional memory is based on all ...

Is there someone who can give a relatively simple rundown of the new technology called "transactional memory"? Why is this kind of memory starting to pop up now (Blue Gene/Q, POWER8, Haswell,…) and ...

With the increasing use of multicore CPUs in computers, programmers have to learn new techniques for parallel processing. One very promising approach is transactional memory. The primary problem for ...