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Monthly Archives: November 2010

CPU Reordering – What is actually being reordered?

2010-11-18

We’ve all heard that a CPU may reorder access to memory. Yet if you’ve looked further you’d also see that …

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CPU Memory – Why do I need a mutex?

2010-11-18

Multi-threaded programming calls for semaphores, synchronized blocks, mutexes, or whatever your language happens to call them. Most of us basically …

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