Class Discussion

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Class Discussion
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Questions

• Why does transactional memory simplify the
  programming task compared to, say
• Wait-free concurrent objects?
• Hazard pointers?
• RCU?
• What safety properties does transactional memory
  provide for concurrently accessed data?
• Does it depend on sequential consistency?
• How easy would it be to transform locking code?
• What overhead does it impose?