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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Return of Transactions
Author : Rachid Guerraoui
Published in: ECOOP 2008 – Object-Oriented Programming
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Major chip manufacturers have recently shifted their focus from speeding individual processors to multiplying them on the same chip and shipping multicore architectures. Boosting the performance of programs will thus necessarily go through parallelizing them. This is not trivial and the average programmer will badly need abstractions for synchronizing concurrent accesses to shared memory objects. The transaction abstraction looks promising for this purpose and there is a lot of interest around its use in modern parallel programming. This talk will investigate whether the ”return” of the old transaction idea brings any interesting research question, especially for the programming language community.