Transactional memory in a dynamic language

Computer Languages, Systems and Structures

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-30

  Renggli, Lukas ^a   Nierstrasz, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Concurrent programming; Language constructs and features; Transactional memory

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); QUERY LANGUAGES; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS AND FEATURES; TRANSACTIONAL MEMORIES; TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 51649123672     PISSN: 14778424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cl.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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