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Re: synchronization without hardware support



On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:51:35AM +0200, Nir Tzachar wrote:
> > those generally fall apart if the cpu also has a cpu store buffer and a
> > weakly ordered memory model ;)
> if you referred to one of the mentioned algorithms, can you please explain?

a cpu with a store buffer and a weakly ordered memory model will not have
it's writes to memory visible to other cpus without explicit
synchronisation...... 

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