Why STM Can Be More Than A Research Toy

  • Aleksandar Dragojevic ,
  • Pascal Felber ,
  • Vincent Gramoli ,
  • Rachid Guerraoui

Communications of the ACM | , Vol 54 (4): pp. 70-77

We explore whether Software Transactional Memory (STM) can outperform sequential code and with how many threads executing in parallel.