Sharing in D

[superdan]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> That's certainly possible.  But I do think it would require the solution to
> be pervasive rather than just in D if Intel were to pay attention.  That
> said, I'd most prefer release consistency for a hardware memory model
> (somewhat like the Itanium) combined with hardware transactional
> memory.  I'm actually a bit disappointed that the Itanium wasn't
> successful.  The basic design was solid.

haven't read bartosz' stuff yet, so no comment on that. but with all due respect. about itanium's design. what a piece of rotten shit that is. they use predicated execution like it's jesus on tv. of course that didn't catch up. itanium was a stillborn from day 1.