[cpp-threads] modes
Doug Lea
dl at cs.oswego.edu
Sat May 7 18:53:42 BST 2005
Alexander (and Peter?), how about you humor me and, for each mode you
like not in minimal list, present a case that arguably meets the
criteria ...
> only if there are compelling use cases for modes needed in
> constructions that:
> 1. arise in common or important situations,
> 2. can't be expressed without special modes,
> 3. will remain inefficient even when compilers start
> routinely optimizing wrt memory barriers etc in compliant code,
> 4. will remain useful even as hardware vendors continue
> with their (very) recent trends to make most barriers etc cheaper
> (and thus less worthwhile to evade in corner cases).
>
... so we can discuss whether they pass some consensus threshold that
we must establish.
Thanks!
-Doug
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