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From:
Jonathan Worthington
Date:
June 2, 2006 01:44
Subject:
Re: Concurrency: hypothetical variables and atomic blocks
Message ID:
02a101c68621$7d3d2600$6ff8e880@jwcsjw
"Jonathan Scott Duff" <duff@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:22:12PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
>> Forgive this ignorant soul; but what is "STM"?
>
> Software Transaction Memory
>
Well, Software Transactional Memory if I'm being picky.  :-)  Some info and 
an interesting paper here:-
http://www.cambridge.intel-research.net/~rennals/faststm.html

Jonathan 


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