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Software Transactional Memory

• http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/shavit95software.html
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
• http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Software_transactional_memory
  
  
• Software Transactional Memory - Making multithreading easier - the first post in a series by RalfWestphal
  
  
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/stm/stm.pdf
• http://blogs.msdn.com/devdev/archive/2005/10/20/483247.aspx
  
  
• http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Programming-in-the-Age-of-Concurrency-Software-Transactional-Memory/
  
  
• Software Transactional Memory: Debunked!
  • the overhead is still to high
  • ''The problem with STM: your languages still suck'
    
  
  
• http://blogs.msdn.com/devdev/archive/2005/10/20/483247.aspx

• Misguided: The Road Not To Be Travelled

Switching from today's monitors to transactional memory is not going to be a baby step either! It's a huge step. In the wrong direction.

We need to be headed primarily toward shared *nothing*. Sharing at the level prescribed in this paper, whether with locks or transactions, is simply uncalled for 99% of the time. Sequential processes with shared-nothing message passing should be the direction.

• http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/burton-smith-vs-erik-meijer.html
  • http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Burton-Smith-Concurrency-Parallelism-and-Programming/
• http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4069
  • http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg79739.html
  • http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/113527

Bibliographies

• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/trans-memory/biblio/swtm.html
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/stm/index.htm