By: Robert Williams (crispysilicon.delete@this.gmail.com), April 9, 2021 12:46 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on April 9, 2021 9:25 am wrote:
> Honestly, I'm done with Intel's market fragmentation crap with Xeon
> CPU's having features that the normal consumer CPU's don't.
>
> So I won't even bother to try TSX until it's in a CPU in a machine that
> is worth getting, and not some stratospherically priced Xeon thing.
My takeaway from all of this so far is that TSX has it's use cases, but not for most consumer software anyway? Add onto that it's going to take a fairly complex implementation to be performance competitive and I just don't see it tricking down full flavor?
I hate the fragmentation like poison, but I dont think it sounds like the it's worth the transistors in desktop/mobile.
> Honestly, I'm done with Intel's market fragmentation crap with Xeon
> CPU's having features that the normal consumer CPU's don't.
>
> So I won't even bother to try TSX until it's in a CPU in a machine that
> is worth getting, and not some stratospherically priced Xeon thing.
My takeaway from all of this so far is that TSX has it's use cases, but not for most consumer software anyway? Add onto that it's going to take a fairly complex implementation to be performance competitive and I just don't see it tricking down full flavor?
I hate the fragmentation like poison, but I dont think it sounds like the it's worth the transistors in desktop/mobile.