Very interesting! It's always fun to see "external" development in the general field of computer architecture affect low-level stuff like a CPU's cache and memory subsystems.
It wasn't super-easy to figure out who in the grand ecosystem view of things is going to have to care about these instructions, but I guess database and OS folks.
Also, if the author reads this, the first block quote with instruction descriptions has an editing fail, it repeats the same paragraph three times (text begins "CLWB instruction is ordered only by store-fencing operations").
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Very interesting! It's always fun to see "external" development in the general field of computer architecture affect low-level stuff like a CPU's cache and memory subsystems.
It wasn't super-easy to figure out who in the grand ecosystem view of things is going to have to care about these instructions, but I guess database and OS folks.
Also, if the author reads this, the first block quote with instruction descriptions has an editing fail, it repeats the same paragraph three times (text begins "CLWB instruction is ordered only by store-fencing operations").