On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:13:07 -0400 David Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
:>At 9/18/2012 03:02 PM, Chuck Arney wrote: :>>It seems to be an extended PLO instruction. :>>Chuck Arney :>>Arney Computer Systems :>It's much more than that. PLOs can defend only against interference :>done via other PLOs. The TState can defend against any interference :>whatsoever, regardless of how it's done. :>Set the new thread, "The Transaction State" for more information. I don't see that. >From my read of the doc it appears that TS only serializes with other code equally doing TS. I don't see how non-TS code running a linked-list is protected if the TS code removes an item from the list. So instead of running a chain using PLO compare-and-fetch I can now use TS to do the same function. But code that is not aware is not protected. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies.
