multi-core software

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Seamus MacRae <smacrae319 at live.ca.invalid> (SM) wrote:

>SM> 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. 

>SM> Is that the one about transactional memory?

Yes
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