multi-core software

[Seamus MacRae]

Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> By the way, there is a series of articles about concurrency on ACM Queue
> which may be interesting for those participating in or just following
> this discussion:
> 
> http://queue.acm.org/listing.cfm?item_topic=Concurrency&qc_type=theme_list&filter=Concurrency&page_title=Concurrency
> 
> Here is one introductory paragraph from one of the articles:
> 
>     Parallel programming poses many new challenges to the developer, one of
>     which is synchronizing concurrent access to shared memory by multiple
>     threads. Programmers have traditionally used locks for synchronization,
>     but lock-based synchronization has well-known pitfalls. Simplistic
>     coarse-grained locking does not scale well, while more sophisticated
>     fine-grained locking risks introducing deadlocks and data races.
>     Furthermore, scalable libraries written using fine-grained locks cannot
>     be easily composed in a way that retains scalability and avoids deadlock
>     and data races. 

Is that the one about transactional memory?