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Update: I'm no longer convinced... [[User:Dank|Dank]] 21:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Update: I'm no longer convinced... [[User:Dank|Dank]] 21:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
==[[GCC]]==
GCC supports x86 transactional memory as of November 2011 via the <tt>-fgnu-tm</tt> command line option.
==See Also==
* [http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-stm-compiler-prototype-edition/ Intel Transactional Memory] ABI document
* James Reinders' "[http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/coarse-grained-locks-and-transactional-synchronization-explained/ Coarse-grained locks and Transactional Synchronization explained]"
* Greg Pfister's "[http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2012/02/transactional-memory-in-intel-haswell.htmlTransactional Memory in Intel Haswell: The Good, and a Possible Ugly]"
[[CATEGORY: x86]]
[[CATEGORY: Hardware]]

Latest revision as of 09:20, 14 March 2012

I'm pretty convinced transactional memory is a bunch of crap, frankly.

Update: I'm no longer convinced... Dank 21:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

GCC

GCC supports x86 transactional memory as of November 2011 via the -fgnu-tm command line option.

See Also