Does anyone else feel that the following is a fair clarification?

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This means that communicating processors "forget" the exact order in which data was written: one tread writes x and then y and for a while another thread sees the new y but only the old x.

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This means that communicating processors "forget" the exact order in which data was written: one tread writes to x and then to y and for a while another thread sees the new value of y but only the old value of x.

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Once I got my head around what is being claimed, I realised that it is correct as it appears, but it took me several reading to get there. It might just be because I'm a bit of a concurrency novice, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with a copy of tDPL ^^

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