Everything you always wanted to know about synchronization but were afraid to ask-ppt外文电子书籍.pdfVIP

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Synchronization but Were Afraid to Ask Tudor David, Rachid Guerraoui, Vasileios Trigonakis The multi-core revolution • Big challenges in hardware software • Software – scalability: ↑ performance by ↑ number of cores Synchronization is one of the biggest scalability bottlenecks 11/4/2013 Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL) 2 Synchronization • Cannot always be avoided – not all applications embarrassingly parallel • Synchronization is just an overhea