Re:Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
by ncmncm on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:01AM
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Right.
There is really only a single place volatile actually works, and that is for memory-mapped hardware registers. Anybody who says it is useful for anything else is badly mistaken.
Except in MSVC, where it kinda/sorta means atomic.
There is really only a single place volatile actually works, and that is for memory-mapped hardware registers. Anybody who says it is useful for anything else is badly mistaken.
Except in MSVC, where it kinda/sorta means atomic.