On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am spamming the list, but there are just too many interesting stuff > going on! Looks like the Rock processor is going to be unveiled next > year. Support for Rock in OpenSolaris went in a while back: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-September/015158.html > > If you are not familiar with Rock check this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_processor > > On of the unconventional things in Rock will be support for Transactional > memory which will supposedly allow simplifying locking semantics in > concurrent processing.
A related story here at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/sun_dziuba_tm/ -Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com Skype: amitkumarsaha
