<p><aclass="reference external"href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory">Transactional Memory</a>™ is a technique imported from databases: every
<p><aclass="reference external"href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory">Transactional Memory</a>– TM – is a technique imported from databases: every
time we want to do a change to the processors' main memory, we do it in
a “transaction”. Multiple transactions can be executed in parallel by
multiple cores. When a transaction is complete, we try to commit it.