Re: pointer assignment inherently atomic ?
Re: pointer assignment inherently atomic ?
- Subject: Re: pointer assignment inherently atomic ?
- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:42:05 -0600
- Thread-topic: pointer assignment inherently atomic ?
> knowing this, is it possible that pointer assignment will be
> effectively atomic even across multiple cores?
You're beyond Cocoa at this point. You should take the question to Apple's
mt-smp list. I think the answer to your question varies dependent on the
hardware, especially Intel vs PPC, but mt-smp is the place to go for an
authoritative answer.
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Scott Ribe
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