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This is the second call for donations on the topic of Transactional
Memory (TM) in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in
Memory (*TM*) in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in
multithreaded mode. It is a follow-up on our `first call for
donations`_ from two years ago. At that time, we suggested a
single-threaded slow-down of somewhere between 2x and 5x. The aim that
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What is Transactional Memory?
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`Transactional Memory`_ (TM) is a technique imported from
`Transactional Memory`_ (*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,
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<div class="section" id="preamble">
<h1>Preamble</h1>
<p>This is the second call for donations on the topic of Transactional
Memory &trade; in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in
Memory (<em>TM</em>) in PyPy, a way to run CPU-hungry Python programs in
multithreaded mode. It is a follow-up on our <a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html">first call for
donations</a> from two years ago. At that time, we suggested a
single-threaded slow-down of somewhere between 2x and 5x. The aim that
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</div>
<div class="section" id="what-is-transactional-memory">
<h2>What is Transactional Memory?</h2>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory">Transactional Memory</a> &trade; is a technique imported from
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_memory">Transactional Memory</a> (<em>TM</em>) is a technique imported from
databases: every time we want to do a change to the processors' main
memory, we do it in a &ldquo;transaction&rdquo;. Multiple transactions can be
executed in parallel by multiple cores. When a transaction is complete,
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