Reducing the integration complexity of software transactional memory with tboost.stm

Transactional memory (TM) is a concurrency control paradigm that reduces the difficulty of writing parallel programs and supports the efficient execution of some concurrent workloads. While TM offers advantages over other abstractions, it can sometimes require complex hardware, programming language extensions, specific compiler support, or enforce impractical software design, making it unrealistic for early adopters. In this paper, we explore recent advances in TBoost.STM, a software TM library, that support a wider array of C++’s control flow statements and simplify the integration of transactions into programs without transactions