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Re:There's No Such Thing as “Implicitly Atomic” by stouset on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:27PM (#37783117)
The value being written was composed from multiple inputs. Instead of instructions to combine those inputs into a register and store them, it performed multiple partial stores of the values it was composed from. Think two u16s being ORed into a u32.

Maybe it chose this optimization due to register pressure, and not wanting to spill values that were still going to be used?

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