IBM Transaction Memory

Linus comment on IBM TM

Microarchitecture and uop per insn

Paul Clayton: 1 µop per instruction is not necessary

Power Ecosystem

POWER has less optimizations in multimedia codebases for example than ARM and there wasn't similar broad push for server software tooling as ARM has...

Linus on Dirty Bit

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B3 JIT replaces LLVM in WebKit

Introducing the B3 JIT Compiler

Linus on memory ordering

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CARDIAC Computer Tribute and Simulator