Here is a really good slide introducing intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions!
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I'm interested to hear about the bug the hardware was shipped with.
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Did anyone figure out if there are processors we can play around with that have access to transactional memory? I couldn't find much information about this, and I'm very curious.
I'd be interested to see someone play around with the RTM features on a recent Intel chip and letting us know what you find/observe.
More information at Wikipedia.
Here is a really good slide introducing intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions!
I'm interested to hear about the bug the hardware was shipped with.
Did anyone figure out if there are processors we can play around with that have access to transactional memory? I couldn't find much information about this, and I'm very curious.