On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 01:31:14 +1100 Matt Joiner <anacro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However given advances in locking and garbage collection in the last > decade, what attempts have been made recently to try these new ideas > out? In particular, how unlikely is it that all the thread safe > primitives, global contexts, and reference counting functions be made > __transaction_atomic, and magical parallelism performance boosts > ensue?
IMHO, it sounds a bit too magical to be true. > I'm aware that C89, platforms without STM/GCC, and single threaded > performance are concerns. Please ignore these for the sake of > discussion about possibilities. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/TransactionalMemory I find it interesting that the only example of hardware transactional memory mentioned in this page is a Sun CPU project which has been cancelled. Does Intel have anything similar in the works? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com