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Tue Aug 21 18:37:03 EDT 2007
Sun to start using transactional memory
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I try not to just post links, but I found this story on the Reg-
ister significant.
Sun is going to be including transactional memory into some lines
of machines, and this a key step towards making the writing of
concurrent applications "easier" for us humans. In addition to
making it easier by allowing programmers to be a little more
careless with ensuring that their parallel lines of execution are
doing the correct thing, it also seems to me like a key to deal-
ing with the cache coherency issue that I see arising once we
start seeing many (as in more than 8) cores per CPU die.
Here is the wikipedia page on transactional memory:
Transactional Memory
and the link to the story:
Link to story
The use of transactional memory was mentioned in the paper (which
is worth a read),
The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley
Enjoy!
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