I’m fascinated by hardware transactional memory.

I’m fascinated by hardware transactional memory. If it works out (and there’s a good backward compatible solution for non-capable chips) it could make a huge difference in complexity of lightly-parallel applications.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/transactional-memory-going-mainstream-with-intel-haswell/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/a-look-at-haswell/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/08/ibms-new-transactional-memory-make-or-break-time-for-multithreaded-revolution/

(yes, I like Ars Technica. 🙂

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/transactional-memory-going-mainstream-with-intel-haswell/