Transactional memory seems as though it would often make our lives easier as programmers, since many of our thread safety and performance concerns can be passed to someone else. I wonder why usage of HTM is not more prevalent? According to this (rather outdated) article, HTM started shipping in Haswell class processors, and should be fairly easy to access now.
Transactional memory seems as though it would often make our lives easier as programmers, since many of our thread safety and performance concerns can be passed to someone else. I wonder why usage of HTM is not more prevalent? According to this (rather outdated) article, HTM started shipping in Haswell class processors, and should be fairly easy to access now.
https://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/transactional-memory-going-mainstream-with-intel-haswell/