Subj : Re: transactional memory question
To   : comp.arch,comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 09:20 am

> But does anyone
> here know any architecture already supporting TM?

IMHO, I believe its too early in the game for actual hardware support, even 
though they really do need it in order for TM to become really useful. All 
of the software emulations I have seen are loaded with expensive atomic 
operations; mutexs seem more efficient...

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