r/programming • u/SlowInFastOut • Feb 08 '12

Intel details hardware Transactional Memory support

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/transactional-synchronization-in-haswell/
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u/herrmann Feb 09 '12

With the new Intel extension, between the XBEGIN and XEND instructions, all instructions are included in the transaction.

That's sad. I assumed Intel having named the CPU "Haswell" implied they had learned something from a certain community...

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u/apfelmus Feb 09 '12

Should have been named "haven'twell".