CS258: Reading Assignment #20
Due Monday, April 28
The reading assignment for Monday for CS 258 is to read the following
two papers:
Language Support for
Lightweight Transactions, Tim Harris and Keir Fraser. In proceedings of the International
Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and
Applications (OOPSLA), 2003
Transactional Memory
Coherence and Consistency. Lance Hammond, Vicky Wong, Mike Chen,
Brian D. Carlstrom, John D. Davis, Ben Hertzberg,
Manohar K. Prabhu, Honggo Wijaya, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle
Olukotun. In proceedings of the
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2004
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.
