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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by spankalee on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:41PM (#25234001)
What's the actual optimization though?
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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by plasma on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:03PM (#25234158)
The tweet author in the linked thread later writes:

"Weaker memory model makes acquire-release atomics possible to implement much more efficiently, in exchange for not hiding some classes of multithreading bugs"

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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by tambourine_man on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:48PM (#25234053)
Have you read the tweet and thread? If so, I don’t understand what you’re asking.
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Re:Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ... by spankalee on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:24PM (#25234621)
Twitter wasn't making the relevant responses really visible. _kbh_ pointed it out
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