[Info-vax] CPU Refresher for Programmers

[John Reagan]

On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 10:10:18 PM UTC-5, 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

Lots of Linus references for sure.  And lots of hand waving...  Some of the links seem worthwhile (I downloaded some things for later reading).