On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> wrote: > Azul has been using hardware transactional memory on their custom CPUs (and > likely STM in their current x86 virtual machine based products) to great > effect for their massively parallel Java VM (700+ cpu cores and gobs of ram) > for over 4 years. I'll leave it to the reader to do the relevant searching > to read more on that. > > My point is: This is up to any given Python VM implementation to take > advantage of or not as it sees fit. Shoe horning it into an existing VM may > not make much sense but anyone is welcome to try.
There's a patch somewhere on the tracker to add an "Armin Rigo hook" to the CPython eval loop so he can play with STM in Python as well (at least, I think it was STM he wanted it for - it might have been something else). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
