Transactional memory

By: Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org), September 21, 2010 11:21 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton@gmail.com) on 9/21/10 wrote:
>
>With respect to software, TM is actually somewhat nice. It allows the programmer
>to express the operation as something closer to coarse-grained locking while having
>performance similar to fine-grained locking.

I think you've bought into the hype too much.

In theory it works the way you say. In practice? Not
so much. Because of the limits on how big a transaction can
be, you end up having to have fall-back cases etc, or can
only use it for trivial cases where you know you won't be
overflowing any transaction sizes.

I have yet to hear of anybody that actually does the
whole transactional memory thing well.

Linus
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