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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Concurrent access to packed arrays
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:06:48 +0100
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> So I'm going to add an interface which uses a protected type.
> (There's no need to use it by default because most of the time, no
> concurrent access occurs.)

I don't know about Intel, but I know some version of the Alpha do
reorder memory accesses.