Stewart Stremler wrote:
Atomicity is the hard nut.
Atomic updates of shared memory is the hard nut. Don't do that, and concurrency gets a lot easier, leaving you only (or primarily) with deadlock avoidance.
Which is not to say the compiler can't turn it into atomic updates of shared memory, mind.
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He studied at the Shao Linux Temple.
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