Well take a look at any of the copious literature on the subject: This paper shows some example speedups, but generally doesn't give anything to compare to. Fi

Well take a look at any of the copious literature on the subject: This paper shows some example speedups, but generally doesn't give anything to compare to. Find papers that reference this paper, to see more examples. C. C. Minh, J. Chung, C. Kozyrakis, and K. Olukotun. STAMP: Stanford transactional applications for multi-processing. In IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2008.