research highlights

P. 82

technical
Perspective
a methodology for
evaluating computer
system Performance
By William Pugh
P. 90
technical
Perspective
transactions
are tomorrow’s
Loads and stores
By Nir Shavit

P. 83

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee:
Evaluation Methodology
for the 21st Century

By Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robin Garner, Chris Hoffmann, Asjad M. Khan, Rotem Bentzur, Amer Diwan, Daniel Feinberg, Daniel Frampton, Samuel Z. Guyer, Martin Hirzel, Antony Hosking, Maria Jump, Han Lee, J. Eliot, B. Moss, Aashish Phansalkar, Darko Stefanovíc, Thomas VanDrunen, Daniel von Dincklage, and Ben Wiedermann

P. 91

Composable
Memory Transactions

By Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Maurice Herlihy