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[Golfbum]

I'm guessing the will show it off at IDF and have a bunch of tools/libs/classes offered on it.

If history is a guide they will have at least one early adopter coming in and singing its praises.

We'll probably see more of Intel Phi as well in actual prototype systems running code with a couple of early adopters there as well.

gb

[Saturn V]

Your Quote about Transactional Memory: "guess that this is one way to improve performance on single-threaded programs without any programming."

I think that you meant "improve performance on multi-threaded programs without significant programming".

Transactional memory makes for simpler and more transparent implementation of semaphore locks and other software contructs needed for multi-threaeded code. If this is indeed automated by the compiler, it will allow better and widespread use of multiple cores.