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Transactional memory idea with C++

Montero__Bonita
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I just had a nice transactional memory idea that might make transactional memory portable across CPUs having similar facilities like TSX on Intel-CPUs.
The idea is to encapsulate the transaction in a C++ lamda. Look at this code:

template<typename L>
inline
int transaction( L &lambda )
{
    unsinged code = _xbegin();
    if( code == _XBEGIN_STARTED )
    {
        lambda();
        _xend();
        return 1;
    }
    else
        return (code & (_XABORT_RETRY | _XABORT_EXPLICIT)) == _XABORT_RETRY ? 0 : -1;
} 

...
   auto trans = []()
   {
       ... do transacton
   };
   transaction<decltype(trans)>( trans );

transaction<>() returns everything which is necessary: > 0 if the transaction is successful, 0 if it is aborted but could be retried and < 0 if it is aborted and can't retried.
Unfortunately C++ is too stupid as to decuce the template-parameter I specify with decltype(trans) from the parameter to transaction(). otherwise I could place the lamda directly into the function-call. Hopefully another upcoming C++ standard will have a template-parameter-decuction for this.

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