> There's only one exception to it, which is when the memory holds a
> variable which can be written with a single instruction (like a 4 byte
> integer) and you don't care if the reader thread gets an outdated value
> from time to time. In that case, I'd simply declare the variable as
> volatile, and access it as usual in the code.
>
> All other cases need synchronization.
True; I was thinking of the old days in which we had 16-bit access to 32-bit
vars {:v)
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