Quote: conditional critical regions in Atomos by watch sets that trip on updates; yields the hardware transactional context until a condition might be true

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Atomos conditional waiting follows the general approach of … waits to restart until it has reason to … [ref]. … the read set of a transaction [acts] as a tripwire to detect when to reevaluate the condition … Atomos refines the general approach by allowing a … the watch set, the program calls 'retry' to … [and its hardware-based, transactional context].   Google-1   Google-2

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