[Haskell-cafe] Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell

[Ryan Ingram]

It seems like it would still be useful for *optimizing* the implementation
of STM in Haskell; in particular, small transactions seem like a great way
to implement lock-free data structures by handling the non-composability of
compare-and-swap.

So while you wouldn't implement "atomically a" by "XBEGIN; a; XEND", you
might implement atomically by doing the transaction log as we do now, then
using XBEGIN/XEND around the commit operation.

  -- ryan

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Austin Seipp <mad.one at gmail.com> wrote:

> Duncan Coutts talked a bit about this on Reddit here:
>
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/pfnkx/intel_details_hardware_transactional_memory/c3p4oq7
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Ben <midfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/transactional-memory-going-mainstream-with-intel-haswell.ars
> >
> > would any haskell STM expert care to comment on the possibilities of
> hardware acceleration?
> >
> > best, ben
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