[LAU] Simple, easy multithreaded circular buffer library for Linux?

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 19:13 +0200, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
> > The test that Olivier has written is essentially a no-op on a
> > uniprocessor x86 system, because there are no cache coherency issues.
> > The code *is* thread safe on a uniprocessor because of the logic above,
> > not because we rely on instruction reordering/memory barrier processor
> > behaviour. 
> 
> i haven't thought much about this issue, but the fact that i got a
> failure on an uniprocessor athlon64 seems to contradict your statement:

in which case i should shut up now, since this implies that i don't know
enough about what is going on here.