Subj : Re: Memory visibility and MS Interlocked instructions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 07:49 pm

"Alexander Terekhov" <terekhov@web.de> wrote in message 
news:4310C372.2225A81@web.de...
>
> Joe Seigh wrote:
> [...]
>> just trying to save Intel from themselves.  It's not a
>> correctness of implementation issue, it's a performance
>
> Under x86 memory model, all loads (including dependent ones) behave
> in-order with respect to preceding loads. Processor can perform out-
> of-order speculative loads but they never yield incorrect results
> (processor detects memory ordering violations and rolls back).

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/68ba70e66d6b6ee9?hl=en

any thoughts?

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