Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 09:46 pm


Peter Dimov wrote:
[...]
> x86 is the best compromise between programmability and performance. I
> doubt that it will go away or be replaced by a weaker model. All weaker
> models were killed by it.                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, it's too earlier to consider... uhmm, for example CELL to be 
killed by x86. Oder?

regards,
alexander.

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