transactional memory

English

Noun

transactional memory (uncountable)

1. (computing) A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.
   • 2017, Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design‎^[1], Prentice Hall, →ISBN:

     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 […]

Further reading

• transactional memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia