My gut says that HTM would be something used to help make STM commits
faster (if that's possible), not to replace PyPy's STM machinery
entirely.
And maybe with something like CPython, one could replace the GIL
entirely with HTM, but you'd probably want to make the "ticks between
releases" a lot sh
Hi Dimitri,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Dimitri Vorona wrote:
> the original STM proposal spoke of HTM as of a thing of a far future. Now,
> Haswells are out and provide built-in HTM support in form of TSX. In the
> near future I expect more and more systems to have it.
>
> Are there plan to
Hi,
the original STM proposal spoke of HTM as of a thing of a far future. Now,
Haswells are out and provide built-in HTM support in form of TSX. In the
near future I expect more and more systems to have it.
Are there plan to make PyPy use HTM if it is available on the system?
Regards,
Dimitri.
