With the increasing use of multicore CPUs in computers, programmers have to learn new techniques for parallel processing. One very promising approach is transactional memory. The primary problem for ...

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SAN MATEO, Calif. &#151 How many programming threads can you pack into the guts of a network processor? As many as 256, according to Mario Nemirovsky, a pioneer in the technique of simultaneous ...