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Type of concurrency control mechanism
In computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way. It is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. Transactional memory systems provide high-level abstraction as an alternative to low-level thread synchronization. This abstraction allows for coordination between concurrent reads and writes of shared data in parallel systems. Wikipedia →
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📖 Definitions
Noun A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
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Time-Based Software Transactional Memory
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Transactional Memory Coherence and Consistency
Transactional Memory: An Overview
🆕 Influential since 2022
Transactional memory systems in virtual teams: Communication antecedents and the impact of TMS components on creative processes and outcomes
Transactional Memory without Hardware Support: A Comprehensive Software-Driven Approach
Metaverse-based distance learning as a transactional distance mitigator and memory retrieval stimulant
Implementing and verifying release-acquire transactional memory in C11
No Cap, This Memory Slaps: Breaking through the Memory Wall of Transactional Database Systems with Processing-in-Memory
📚 Books worth reading
Religion and the Rise of CapitalismRichard H. Tawney · 1926
Memory, history, nationKatharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone · 2005- 📕Memory, metaphors, and meaningNicolae Babuts · 2009
Memories of Mass RepressionSelma Leydesdorff, Mary Chamberlain · 2009
Frames of RemembranceIwona Irwin-Zarecka · 1994
The Use and Abuse of MemoryChristian Karner · 2013
An Irish country childhoodMarrie Walsh · 1995
Commemorating WarGraham Dawson, Michael Roper · 2004
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