Dynamic performance timing of word-based software transactional memory

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 237-245

  Felber, Pascal ^a   Fetzer, Christof ^b   Riegel, Torvald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic tuning; Transactional memory

Indexed keywords

CURRENT GENERATION; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; DYNAMIC TUNING; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY; TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 79959451973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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