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Busting 4 Modern Hardware Myths - Are Memory, HDDs, and SSDs Really Random Access?
(highscalability.com)
Eliminating Global Interpreter Locks in Ruby through Hardware Transactional Memory (PPoPP '14)
(researcher.watson.ibm.com)
When I was in graduate school, transactional memory was an ivory tower pipe dream, but now it's something that actually exists in hardware you can buy. It seems worthwhile to start learning about how to use it.