[LAD] a *simple* ring buffer, comments pls?

Olivier Guilyardi list at samalyse.com
Tue Jul 12 21:26:35 UTC 2011


On 07/12/2011 11:07 PM, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On 12 July 2011 21:20, Olivier Guilyardi <list at samalyse.com> wrote:
>> Quite interestingly, I have noticed that discussions about memory barriers are
>> often somehow endless. [...] So I thought, maybe there's a hidden topic
>> behind that. A "memory barrier"...
> 
> Indeed -- perhaps these discussions need some sort of memory write
> barrier, ensuring that everything discussed before the barrier will be
> recalled from store subsequently, instead of being discussed anew.
> But this list would be awfully quiet if we had such a thing.

I didn't say the discussions were useless or uninteresting. I just meant that I
think there's a strong symbolic aspect in this topic, which makes it even more
interesting ;)

--
  Olivier



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