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Here mentions many advantages of TM, and it seems like TM is a life saver for us programmers. But it should be clear that TM is not suitable in cases that if the execution of a block is computational intensive and is tightly contended, TM is not supposed to use, because it would make other threads constantly discard what they have done and re-start, which wastes lots of work.