[cpp-threads] Web site updated

Lawrence Crowl Lawrence at Crowl.org
Wed Feb 14 05:01:04 GMT 2007


On 2/13/07, Boehm, Hans <hans.boehm at hp.com> wrote:
> Conceivably by breaking the length of dependency chains, allowing the
> code to execute faster on out of order architectures.  But even if it
> doesn't, we would now have to tell compiler writers that certain
> (probably nonprofitable) transformations on non-atomic code are now no
> longer legal.  Which would at least require a clear definition of what
> those are in terms of program behavior, which sounds hard.

As long as the normative text is behavior based, a note can provide the
implication on existing compiler practice.

-- 
Lawrence Crowl



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