Facts about STM
These days there just can’t be enough said to counter the hype that comes with STM. The following paper is an eye opening read(it measures actual peformance of STM). Hopefully some of the STM faithful will re-consider their fanatic beliefs.
Software transactional memory: why is it only a research toy?
“In this article, we explore the performance of a highly optimized STM and observe the overall performance of TM is much worse at low levels of parallelism, which is likely to limit the adoption of this programming paradigm.”