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Subj : Re: [.NET] Volatile Fields
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Cool Guy
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 11:41 am

David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

>     What do caches have to do with thread-safety? It's read/write *ordering* 
> that creates thread safety problems, not caches.

I think I understand it more now -- when you talk of read/write re-ordering
you're talking about when reads/writes are effectively made to/from **main
memory**, right?

Before I was thinking it was about *any* and *all* reads/writes being moved
around.

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