What is lightweight lock in distributed shared memory systems?

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Published on 2013-10-24T07:25:35Z Indexed on 2013/10/24 10:10 UTC
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I started reading Tanenbaum's Distributed Systems book a while ago. I read about two phase locking and timestamp reordering in transactions chapter. While having a deeper look from google I heard of lightweight transactions/lightweight transactional memory. But I couldn't find any good explanation and implementation. So what is lightweight memory? What are the benefits of lightweight locks? And how can I implement them?

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