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transactional memory

transactional memory noun: a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.

Noun

transactional memory (uncountable)

  1. A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.
    • Since mutating state exposes those components to all the problems of concurrency, it is common practice to use some kind of transactional memory to protect the mutable variables from concurrent updates […]2017, Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design, Prentice Hall, →ISBN

Questions about transactional memory

What does transactional memory mean?
Transactional memory means a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.
What part of speech is transactional memory?
Transactional memory is a noun.

Words near transactional memory in the dictionary

  1. transactional attorney
  2. transactional attorneys
  3. transactional distance
  4. transactional distances
  5. transactional interpretation
  6. transactional memory
  7. transactionalism
  8. transactionalist
  9. transactionalists
  10. transactionalities
  11. transactionality

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