Subj : Re: YALFAm (Yet Another Lock Free Approach, maybe)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Sun May 15 2005 06:49 pm

>> it can use the "more" lightweight mfence instruction...
>
> But in other discussions people had reported that mfence does not
> work on AMD or some other Intel CPUs. Were these issues solved
> in the meantime?

I believe its part of SSE2. You should try to avoid using the lock prefix 
whenever you can.

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