Ouch -- accused of marketing speak. That one stings. I had been using the term "power-fail safe domain" to talk about the line a store crosses where it is then persistent in the face of power failures. But that led…
Author here. The PCOMMIT encoding you mention produces an undefined opcode fault on all existing CPUs (written as #UD in the specs). Since no CPU has shipped supporting PCOMMIT, this gives us high confidence that no…
Ouch -- accused of marketing speak. That one stings. I had been using the term "power-fail safe domain" to talk about the line a store crosses where it is then persistent in the face of power failures. But that led…
Author here. The PCOMMIT encoding you mention produces an undefined opcode fault on all existing CPUs (written as #UD in the specs). Since no CPU has shipped supporting PCOMMIT, this gives us high confidence that no…