Subj : Re: YALFAm (Yet Another Lock Free Approach, maybe)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri May 27 2005 07:59 pm


"doug" <noone@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:tfOle.143747$Cq2.36409@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> Just for those of us in the cheap seats:
>
> "exact same memory visbility semantics they happen to have on current x86 
> platforms"
>
> Can you tell us what these are?

    They have full memory barriers both before and after the operation.

    DS

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