Virtues and limitations of commodity hardware transactional memory
Nuno Diegues, Paolo Romano, Luı́s Rodrigues · 2014
Over the last years Transactional Memory (TM) gained growing popularity as a simpler, attractive alternative to classic lock-based synchronization schemes. Recently, the TM landscape has been profoundly changed by the integration of Hardware TM (HTM) in Intel commodity processors, raising a number of questions on the future of TM.