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CS258: Reading Assignment #17
Due Friday, April 19



The reading assignment for Friday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. Transactional memory: architectural support for lock-free data structures, Maurice Herlihy. J. Eliot B. Moss, Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 1993
  2. Efficient synchronization: let them eat QOLB, Alain Kägi, Doug Burger, James R. Goodman, Proceedings of the 24th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 1997
Write one paragraph about each of these papers. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.

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