Design & Development Tools

摘要

A specification called "Light-Weight Profiling" (LWP), a mechanism for software to more effectively leverage the benefits of multicore processing, describes technology supporting the recently introduced "Hardware Extensions for Software Parallelism" initiative. The spec is a set of new hardware features to improve software parallelism in future processors and covers a CPU mechanism that could have broad benefit to software including runtime environments such as Java Virtual Machine and .NET Framework.