Elegant C

Ben Blum  defended his dissertation work today on Practical Concurrency Testing.  What follows are the notes from that defense. To prove t...

I previously speculated about how Intel's TSX is implemented ; however, I did not have access to any machines supporting TSX until this ...

Since I am already excited about some of the features of the new Haswell family, it was great to see an even deeper look into microarchitect...

It was some years ago that I sat in the audience and heard AMD present a sketch for how transactional memory (TM) would be implemented in th...

With my time dominated by preparing to take PhD qualifying exams (i.e., quals), I have been even more slack than usual with regards to prepa...

As of noon, I've spent most of my morning as a volunteer at MICRO; however, I did slip in to hear the keynote and AMD's talk about a...