Transactional Memory - A Contender for The Solution

This unproven technique is apparently implemented in the announced Azul Systems product (supported by IBM and BAE, and sued by Sun). TM may be a valid solution for many situations for multithreaded apps. Here's a biblio:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/trans-memory/biblio/index.html

TODO evaluate technology - there are a few recent opinions in the java concurrent mailing list.

Update 2007.01.21: ACM article by Intel and Stanford U. - TODO read carefully