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This paper explores the feasibility of re-expressing concurrent algorithms with explicit locks in terms of lock free code written using Haskell’s implementation of software transactional memory. Experimental results are presented which show that for multi-processor systems the simpler lock free implementations offer superior performance when compared to their corresponding lock based implementations.
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Discolo, A., Harris, T., Marlow, S., Jones, S.P., Singh, S. (2006). Lock Free Data Structures Using STM in Haskell. In: Hagiya, M., Wadler, P. (eds) Functional and Logic Programming. FLOPS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11737414_6
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