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Maybe some other folks would like to look too.  I've found the blog I 
was looking for, but this guy is fairly prolific in his writing and I'm 
having trouble finding the article about how CPUs can return random 
values when proper signalling is not used.

Take a search through this blog anyway, it's a real eye-opener.

<http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/>



On 1/17/2012 12:09 PM, markspace wrote:

> Check Java Concurrency in Practice. "Programs with data races have no
> useful defined semantics." That's exactly what Brian Goetz says, and
> this is what he's talking about. Reads and writes no longer work if you
> obviate synchronization.
>