As I men­tioned a few weeks ago, I’m writ­ing my master’s the­sis on soft­ware trans­ac­tional mem­ory (STM).

Of course it is still early in the process, and while I’ve got some ideas for my imple­men­ta­tion, and have started pro­to­typ­ing parts of it, most of the time has been spent catch­ing up on all the exist­ing work in the field.

Lit­tle did I know when I accepted the sub­ject that there’d been writ­ten that many papers about it over the last decade. Phew… A com­menter asked me for the ref­er­ences I found use­ful, so here’s an incom­plete list: (more…)

Been a bit quiet on the blog front lately. I’ve been busy get­ting my master’s the­sis off the ground.

But now it is offi­cial. (more…)

Finally, after too many years study­ing at DIKU, I’m about to start on my master’s the­sis. That feels weird.

But I’m still not sure what I want to write about. I’ve got a few ideas, mainly by ask­ing some of the pro­fes­sors I might want as advi­sors if they had any inter­est­ing projects lying around. (more…)