“Easy to program”?

• Treadmarks API (Rice University)

  • Memory allocation
    • Tmk_malloc(unsigned size) to get shared memory
    • malloc() to get private memory
  • Synchronization
    • Global Barriers
      • Tmk_barrier(unsigned id) makes a process wait at the barrier
    • Global Exclusive locks
      • Tmk_lock_acquire (unsigned id)
      • Tmk_lock_release (unsigned id)

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