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Software Transactional Memory for Dynamic-sized Data Structures

Mark Moir

Sun Microsystems

We present a new, dynamic form of software transactional memory that is simpler, more efficient, and more flexible than previous software transactional memory implementations. In particular, it is well suited to implementing dynamic-sized nonblocking data structures: for example, we have used it to implement red-black trees. This represents the most sophisticated nonblocking data structure implemented to date. They key to the efficiency of our implementation is the combination of a new progress condition called obstruction freedom and modular contention management mechanisms.

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