On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 at 11:08:41 UTC, ponce wrote:
I actually tested Haswell HLE and was underwhelmed (not the full STM, was just trying to get more out of some locks).
STM = software based transactional memory (without hardware support)
Haswell does not have buffered transactions so you wait for the commit, but there are presentations out where Intel has put buffered transactions at around 2017… (but I would expect a delay).
