Abstract¶
There has been a growing interest in programming models for concurrency. Strategies for dealing with shared data amongst parallel threads of execution include immutable (as in Erlang) and locked (as in Python) data structures. A third option exists, called transactional memory (as in Haskell), which includes thread-local journaling for operations on objects which are both mutable and globally shared. Here, we present TraM, a pure Python implementation of the TL2 algorithm for software transactional memory.
