Subj : Re: Memory visibility and synchronization using pipes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Drazen Kacar
Date : Mon Jan 17 2005 08:12 am

Joseph Seigh wrote:

>  If the pipe is implemented without syscalls, you would need a hardware
>  mechanism that didn't cause or need memory synchronization, e.g.
>  totally ordered uncached memory, which is extremely unlikely.

Multicore processors?

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