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Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In ...

In recent years with the advent of programming techniques, parallel programming consumes less execution time as compared to sequential. The odd-even merge sort algorithm was developed by K.E. Batcher.