Intel’s Future Haswell Processor to Feature Transactional Synchronization

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Intel’s James Reinders writes that the company will be introducing new Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) for the future 22 nm multicore processor code-named “Haswell”. In a nutshell, Intel TSX provides a set of instruction set extensions that allow programmers to specify regions of code for transactional synchronization. With transactional synchronization,…

 
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