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Thursday, April 26, 2012
 
"Memory Ordering in Modern Microprocessors" by Paul McKenney

"Memory Ordering in Modern Microprocessors" by Paul McKenney
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/ordering.2007.09.19a.pdf

It's a good article, but I am posting it mostly for the awesome picture, which seems to have originated in his earlier Linux Journal article
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8211
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8212

The square guy on the right is a CPU. It's a modern version of "Endian Little Hate We", although I, for one, like little endian.

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