TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux...Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel From Communications of the ACM | September 2008
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In this paper we present a concurrency model based on transactional memory. All the usualblocking and choice...Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, Maurice Herlihy From Communications of the ACM | August 2008
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