STMBench7: A benchmark for software transactional memory

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 315-324

  Guerraoui, Rachid ^a   Kapalka, Michal ^a   Vitek, Jan ^b  

^a School for Computer and Communication Science

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Software transactional memory

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPH THEORY; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

FINE-GRAINED LOCKING; MULTI-PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

CAD/CAMS; COARSE-GRAINED; COMPLEX APPLICATIONS; MEASURING PERFORMANCE; MULTI-PROCESSORS; NUMBER OF THREADS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; SHARED DATA STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; STRUCTURE MODIFICATION;

EID: 34548036715     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1272996.1273029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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