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		jeffbee 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) If the committee had any good taste at all they would have thrown DEC AXP overboard before C++11, which would have cut the majority of the words out of the specification for std::memory_order. It was only the obsolete and quite impossible to program Alpha CPU that requires the ultimate level of complexity.

gpderetta 3 months ago [–]

If Alpha never existed, memory_order_consume would still exist. But we have done this discussion before.

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