SXM_(transactional_memory) Knowpia

SXM
Original author(s)	Microsoft Research
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	January 2005; 19 years ago
Written in	C#
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Platform	.NET Framework
Type	Software transactional memory
License	Microsoft Research Shared Source license agreement (MSR-SSLA)
Website	research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/6cfc842d-1c16-4739-afaf-edb35f544384/Details.aspx

SXM is a software transactional memory system under development at Microsoft Research.

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The SXM API is exposed via managed code and is used to synchronize access to shared memory without using locks. It achieves mutual exclusion using database-like atomicity transactions. SXM uses the Reflection and dynamic code generation capabilities of .NET Framework to emit CIL code to enable atomic transactions on shared data structures directly at runtime. SXM has been written in C#.