November 14

Software Transactional Memory in Effekt

Concurrent programs are widely used in practice, but notoriously difficult to get right, particularly when dealing with the locking and synchronization of shared memory between threads. However, ensuring correctness becomes even more challenging when individual components, which may function correctly in isolation, interact with each other. Software Transactional Memory offers a solution by abstracting over the low-level details of concurrent programming, providing atomic blocks that enable modular composibility of transactions.