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Author Paxxi
Recipients Paxxi, Segev Finer, emma_smith, jyasskin, mark.dickinson, paul.moore, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, tim.golden, vstinner, zach.ware
Date 2018-06-14.19:54:35
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The HLE variants were simply chosen to match the semantics on other
platforms with regard to aquire/release.
If Intel engineers say the plain versions are better that's good enough for
me.

It would be interesting seeing some benchmarks but I don't have any idea on
how to reliably test the non happy path.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, 21:32 Antoine Pitrou, <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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> I would be ok with reverting to the non-HLE variants.  Does anyone want to
> test the performance implications on TSX-enabled hardware?
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