Transactional Memory - An Overview
This lesson gives an outline of transactional memory, predicted to be introduced in C++20.
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Transactional memory is based on the idea of a transaction from database theory. Transactional memory makes working with threads a lot easier for two reasons: first, data races and deadlocks disappear; second, transactions are composable.
A transaction is an action that has the following properties: ...