Fun with Hardware Transactional Memory

Summary: HTM is not just a faster latch; it enables a fundamental rethink of synchronization in multicore systems. It argues HTM could drive a rethink of locks, memory management, and concurrent data structures, with implications for future in-memory DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4923
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,604 | 6.67%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2602132

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Authors

1. Maurice Herlihy (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{herlihy_sigmod14,
        title = {{Fun with Hardware Transactional Memory}},
        author = {Herlihy, Maurice},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2602132},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2602132},
        year = {2014}
}

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