By: iz (iz.delete@this.z.x), August 23, 2022 1:20 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
--- (---.delete@this.redheron.com) on August 23, 2022 10:00 am wrote:
> Is what people want from HTM
> - PERFORMANCE (which can be achieved, I think, by speculation, as I suggested) OR
> - EASIER writing of code (which can be achieved, I think, by language+compiler, with
> any theoretical performance that's left on the table being made up by speculation).
>
> HTM is a means to an end, it's not an end in itself. But is that end
> - performance OR
> - making it easier to write reliable parallel code
> ?
It promised both, but delivered neither (at least on Intel hardware).
> Is what people want from HTM
> - PERFORMANCE (which can be achieved, I think, by speculation, as I suggested) OR
> - EASIER writing of code (which can be achieved, I think, by language+compiler, with
> any theoretical performance that's left on the table being made up by speculation).
>
> HTM is a means to an end, it's not an end in itself. But is that end
> - performance OR
> - making it easier to write reliable parallel code
> ?
It promised both, but delivered neither (at least on Intel hardware).
