The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.

February 2009

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From Communications of the ACM

Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory

While still primarily a research project, transactional memory shows promise for making parallel programming easier.

Ulrich Drepper | February 2009

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From Communications of the ACM

Improving Performance on the Internet

Given the Internet's bottlenecks, how can we build fast, scalable, content-delivery systems?

Tom Leighton | February 2009