Robert Williams (crispysilicon.delete@this.gmail.com) on April 9, 2021 12:46 pm wrote:
> 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.

Are the transistors there anyway and just fused off? Intel has done that for certain "features" in the past.