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Thanks Vitaly and Thomas for discussing this!<br>
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It seems like the proposed patch is fine for now. I'll remove the
three words from the comment that Thomas suggested and push this.<br>
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Bengt<br>
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On 14/05/15 00:37, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Right, makes sense; presumably Alpha would've tickled
quite a few more concurrency issues by now had it been supported
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<p dir="ltr">sent from my phone</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 13, 2015 6:34 PM, "Thomas Schatzl"
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On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 18:27 -0400, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:<br>
> You're right Thomas, I was mistakenly looking at<br>
> release_store_ptr_*fence* - all good then.<br>
><br>
> Yes, it sounds like it would break on alpha (based on
your<br>
> description, I haven't looked at the code), but that's
not a supported<br>
> platform anyway right? Otherwise, you'd probably have to
introduce a<br>
> new read barrier type for data dependence that's a nop
for all but<br>
> alpha so as to not penalize the others.<br>
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No, we do not support Alpha :)<br>
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I do not think there ever has been a Hotspot for Alpha.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Thomas<br>
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