Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
November 2008
From Communications of the ACM
Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?
The promise of STM may likely be undermined by its overheads and workload applicabilities.
From Communications of the ACM
Real-World Concurrency
What does the proliferation of concurrency mean for the software you develop?
From Communications of the ACM
CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?