Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Oliver S.
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 01:29 am

> Well, until 2010 anyway. That's when Intel claims 100 core proces-
> sors will be commonly available. Individual cores probably won't
> be much faster than they are now. If you want better performance
> than you have now, you'll have to figure out how to do it with
> more threads.

I think we'll have transactional memory in harware by then. Sun
will implement transactional memory with Rock, Niagara's follow-up.

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