Subj : Re: transactional memory question
To   : comp.arch,comp.programming.threads
From : David Hopwood
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 05:04 pm

Chris Thomasson wrote:
>>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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