Re: Accessing same variable from multiple threads

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:51

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Alan Bellingham wrote:

>However, some of us already have multi-processor PCs, and also
>hyperthreading and multi-core CPUs will be increasingly common in the
>near future. With these, I think even a primitive is no longer safe.

If there aren't hardware locks in place to ensure non-conflicting
atomic read/writes, then Intel is failing in it's job.

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