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Transactional memory

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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

  • Intel Transactional Memory ABI document
  • [1] James Reinders' "Coarse-grained locks and Transactional Synchronization explained"
  • [2] Greg Pfister's "Transactional Memory in Intel Haswell: The Good, and a Possible Ugly"