[Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers

[Mark Daniel]

On 12/01/2016 1:40 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
> "What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?"
>
> http://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/
>
> Discusses why cache coherency becomes a limiting factor as sockets and
> cores are added, too.   Why adding lots of cores and lots of sockets
> gets into trouble.   Also mentions transactional memory, RDMA, and some
> other features of recent x86-64 processors.
>
> Yeah, more than a few of the folks here were using 32-bit processors
> back in the 1980s, with VAX or 68K or other such.
>
> Yeah, more than a few of these features have been available in systems
> prior to x86-64 — but these features are now far more common, far
> cheaper, and just as useful.
>
> See the various links at the bottom, too.

Lot to (try and) digest.

"lock incl".  RISC?  What goes around; sure.