The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy

Dan Grossman
2007 Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems and applications - OOPSLA '07  
This essay presents remarkable similarities between transactional memory and garbage collection. The connections are fascinating in their own right, and they let us better understand one technology by thinking about the corresponding issues for the other.
doi:10.1145/1297027.1297080 dblp:conf/oopsla/Grossman07 fatcat:lev6ytg45zchzabv3pprp2xxga