20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
12:48 p.m.
Matt Hurd wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:17:43 +0300, Peter Dimov <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote:
But why is a concurrent-aware setter useful if its effects aren't visible to the other threads?
In what way do you mean they not visible?
Such aligned memory operations are guaranteed to be atomic on ia32 at a system wide level AFAIK.
On IA32, sure, but not on other architectures.