The Transactional Memory Garbage Collection Analogy (analogy_oopsla07) 计算机科学

The Transactional Memory / Garbage Collection AnalogyDan GrossmanUniversity of Washingtondjg@cs.washington.eduAbstract This essay presents remarkable similarities between transac- tional memory and garbage collection. The connections are fascinating in their own right, and they let us better under- stand one technology by thinking about the corresponding issues for the other.Categories and Subject DescriptorsD.1.3 [Programming techniques]: Concurrent Programming—Parallel program- ming; D.3.3 [Pr