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Re: Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail

From MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com>
Newsgroups comp.arch
Subject Re: Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail
Date 2012-03-08 11:09 -0800
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On Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:51:05 AM UTC-6, Andy (Super) Glew wrote:
> On 3/7/2012 9:59 AM, MitchAlsup wrote:
> > Pseudo atomicity is the only way to extend the instruction set so that one can encode atomic activities that require more than 2 unique memory references and some bookeeping instructions between the starting of the atomic event and the completion thereof.

> I believe that I have just discovered a way to prove your statement wrong.

Do I need to add the phrase: "without cluttering up the instruction set" to the previous?

Mitch

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Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-06 20:23 -0800
  Re: Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-07 09:59 -0800
    Re: Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-07 22:51 -0800
      Re: Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-08 11:09 -0800
        Re: Pseudo-atomic - atomic operations that can fail "Andy (Super) Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2012-03-08 17:14 -0800

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