Machens, Holger ;
Turau, Volker
Avoiding Publication and Privatization Problems on Software Transactional Memory
Abstract
This paper presents a new approach to exclude problems arising from dynamically switching between protected concurrent and unprotected single-threaded use of shared data when using software transactional memory in OO languages such as Java. The approach is based on a simple but effective programming model separating transactions from non-transactional operation. It prevents the application programmer from errors but does not force the software transactional memory library to observe non-transactional access and thereby preserves modularity of the software. A prototypical toolchain for validation and source code instrumentation was implemented as a proof of concept.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{machens_et_al:OASIcs:2011:2961,
author = {Holger Machens and Volker Turau},
title = {{Avoiding Publication and Privatization Problems on Software Transactional Memory}},
booktitle = {17th GI/ITG Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems (KiVS 2011) },
pages = {97--108},
series = {OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-939897-27-9},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2011},
volume = {17},
editor = {Norbert Luttenberger and Hagen Peters},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2011/2961},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-29614},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.KiVS.2011.97},
annote = {Keywords: Software Transactional Memory, Publication, Privatization}
}
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Software Transactional Memory, Publication, Privatization |
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17th GI/ITG Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems (KiVS 2011)
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2011 |
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25.02.2011 |