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title: Software Transactional Memory
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**Software Transactional Memory** is a mechanism for managing memory in a
concurrent environment.

# STMX

[STMX](http://stmx.org/) is a high-performance software transactional memory
library for Common Lisp. It was presented at the European Lisp Symposium 2014
([Slides](http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ghilardi.pdf),
[video](http://medias.ircam.fr/xcc8494)).

* [Features](http://stmx.org/features/)
* [Documentation](http://stmx.org/docs/)
* [News](http://stmx.org/news/)