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Rock’s Transactional Memory
Sun has posted a video of a presentation called, “Rock’s Transactional Memory and How to Exploit It“. (51:49) Bob Cypher
and Mark Moir. It provides interesting insights into what Sun is doing:
- Chip Multi-threading
- Multi-Core chips
- Instruction Level Parallelism
- Rock’s Hardware Scout
- Locks
- Transactional Memory (TM)
- Rock’s Hardware for TM (HTM)
- Best effort HTM
- Simulation of Rock’s HTM
- Performance improvements anticipated with hardware transactional memory
