Chihuahua A Concurrent Moving Garbage Collector using Transactional Memory 2

Chihuahua: A Concurrent, Moving, Garbage Collector using Transactional MemoryTodd A. Anderson Intel Labstodd.a.anderson@intel.comMelissa O’Neill Harvey Mudd College oneill@cs.hmc.eduJohn Sarracino University of California San Diegojsarraci@cs.ucsd.eduAbstract Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) offers a powerful new parallel synchronization mechanism, but one whose performance properties are different from techniques that it competes with, such as locks and atomic instructions. Because of HTM’s