A Java implementation of the Rochester Software Transactional Memory Library

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Computer Science, 2008.Recent advances in chip design have necessitated the development of a new programming model to simplify multithreaded programming. Transactional Memory (TM) replaces lock based thread synchronization with a new interface that approximates global lock semantics. In this paper an implementation of RSTM in Java is compared and contrasted with the C++ RSTM implementation as well as Sun’s own DSTM2 library implementation. The version of RSTM Java evaluated in this paper provides Sun’s DSTM2 API. Additional overhead introduced into the RSTM library by running it in Java with the Sun DSTM2 API is also discussed